1st Edition

Unravelling the Fukushima Disaster

Edited By Mitsuo Yamakawa, Daisaku Yamamoto Copyright 2017
194 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Fukushima disaster continues to appear in national newspapers when there is another leakage of radiation-contaminated water, evacuation designations are changed, or major compensation issues arise and so remains far from over. However, after five years, attention and research towards the disaster seems to have waned despite the extent and significance of the disaster that remains. The... Read more

Introduction

Mitsuo Yamakawa, Katsumi Nakai, Daisaku Yamamoto

1. Shaky Ground: The Geophysical Dynamics and Sustained Seismicity of the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake
Yosuke Nakamura

2. Outline of an Invisible Disaster: Physio-Spatial Processes and the Diffusion and Deposition of Radioactive Materials from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Kencho Kawatsu, Kenji Ohse, Kyo Kitayama

3. Place Stigmatization Through Geographic Miscommunication: Fallout of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Takashi Oda

4. Living in Suspension: Conditions and Prospects of Evacuees from the Eight Municipalities of the Futaba District
Mitsuo Yamakawa

5. Displacement and Hope After Adversity: Narratives of Evacuees Following the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Naoko Horikawa

6. How Safe is Safe Enough? The Politics of Decontamination in Fukushima
David W. Edgington

7. Decontamination-Intensive Reconstruction Policy in Fukushima Under Governmental Budget Constraint
Noritsugu Fujimoto

8. Living with Contamination: Alternative Perspectives and Lessons From The Marshall Islands
Sasha Davis and Jessica Hayes-Conroy

9. Radioactive Contamination of Forest Commons: Impairment of Minor Subsistence Practices as an Overlooked Obstacle to Recovery in the Evacuated Areas
Hiroyuki Kaneko

10. Refusing Facile Conclusions and Continuing to Tackle an Aggregating Disaster
Mitsuo Yamakawa and Daisaku Yamamoto

Biography

Mitsuo Yamakawa is Professor of Economic Geography at Teikyo University and Extraordinary Professor of Fukushima Future Center for Regional Revitalization (FURE) at Fukushima University.

Daisaku Yamamoto is Associate Professor of Geography and Asian Studies at Colgate University, New York, USA.