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Japan's Nuclear Crisis

The Routes to Responsibility

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  • © 2012

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  1. Susan Carpenter
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 1-27

  3. Independent Administrative Institutions: In Name Only

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 28-51

  4. Amakudari in the Ministries’ IAIs, Public Corporations, Research Institutes and Affiliated Agencies: the Insidious Side

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 52-70

  5. ‘Information-Sharing’ is Not a Buzz-Word in Japan: Press Clubs Insulate an Insular Political Economy

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 71-78

  6. Elements Intrinsic to Japan’s Political Economy: Interlocking Interests between an Elite Bureaucracy and Big Business

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 79-107

  7. The DNA of Japan’s Post-war Political System: Ultra-conservative to the Core

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 108-142

  8. Pork-Barrel Patronage in the Prefectures: the Proliferation of Nuclear Power Plants

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 143-179

  9. Japan’s Nuclear Crisis: the Routes to Responsibility

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 180-198

  10. The Japan System: Indestructible but Destructive

    • Susan Carpenter
    Pages 199-222

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 223-248
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An analysis and exploration into the impact of Japan's 2011 nuclear crisis. Investigation of the disaster will pose questions regarding why Daiichi was constructed in an earthquake-prone zone and was still operating despite problems that had been plaguing the reactors since 1989 such as cracks in infrastructure and leaks in radioactivity.

About the author

SUSAN CARPENTER is the managing director of International Markets Analysts Limited. She has worked for Japanese business and government organizations and also served as the Director of the MSc in International Business and Emerging Markets at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Her previous publications include Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy: Why Japan Can't Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and Why Japan can't reform: Inside the System (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

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