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Toward a Peaceful Society Without Nuclear Energy: Understanding the Power Structures Behind the 3.11 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Nishioka Nobuyuki  and
John Junkerman
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At midnight on April 22, 2011, the Japanese government designated the zone within a 20-kilometer radius of the Fukushima nuclear power plant a controlled area under the Basic Law for Disaster Countermeasures. As a result, all entry into the zone was prohibited without special government permission. Some 78,000 people were separated from their homes, without knowing when they might return.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 52 , December 2011 , e2
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References

Notes

1 Arima Tetsuo, Gempatsu/Shoriki/CIA: Kimitsu Bunsho de Yomu Showa Rimenshi (Nuclear power, Shoriki, and the CIA: The Inside History of the Showa Era as Seen in Secret Documents) (Shincho Shinsho, 2008).

2 Miyako Mainichi Shimbun, April 28, 2011.

3 Asahi Shimbun, May 5, 2011; Nikkan Sports, April 29, 2011; Shukan Gendai, May 21, 2011.

4 Onda Katsunobu, Tokyo Denryoku: Teikoku no Ankoku (TEPCO: The Darkness of Empire) (Nanatsumori Shokan, 2007); TEPCO Securities Report, 2006; TEPCO, Kanto no Denki Jigyo to Tokyo Denryoky(Electricity Operation in Kanto and TEPCO) (2002).

5 Fuji Sankei Business I, April 14, 2011.

6 Editor's note: Sasamori died in June 2011, after this preface was written.

7 Sunday Mainichi, April 17, 2011.

8 Shukan Gendai, April 23 and May 21, 2011.

9 Editor's note: Shimizu resigned as TEPCO president in June 2011; he is no longer chairman of the academy.

10 Sunday Mainichi, April 24, 2011; Shukan Gendai, May 21, 2011.

11 See the journalist Uesugi Takashi's blog; Nihon Bungeisha's website; and YouTube.

12 The move was reported on the ministry's website under the following heading: “Request Made to Associations of Electronic Communications Companies Regarding Appropriate Responses to Groundless Rumors on the Internet Regarding the Great East Japan.” Earthquake

13 Editor's note: The law was later passed and came into effect on July 14, 2011.

14 Okinawa Times, April 30, 2011.

15 See the Fire and Disaster Management Agency website.

16 Okinawa Times, April 24, 2011.