Japan's Nuclear Crisis [electronic resource] : The Routes to Responsibility /
Carpenter, S.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; Timeline; Annual Average Exchange Rates; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; Consequences of the nuclear crisis: agriculture, fisheries; Consequences of the nuclear crisis: Fukushima residents; Consequences of the nuclear crisis: Fukushima Daiichi workers; 'Information-sharing' is not a buzz-word in government agencies; Institutional reforms postponed; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant: an impending disaster; Where does the buck stop?; The same old story; The routes to responsibility; Perceptions of Japan Inc.: busting myths
1 Independent Administrative Institutions: In Name OnlyThe push for reforms: the perfect opportunity; Reforms according to Koizumi: FILP; Reforms according to Koizumi: enthusiastic support from the opposition; The privatization of the Japan Highway Corporation: unenthusiastic support from the LDP and the ministries; Special Corporations: consequences of amakudari; The liquidation of a failed Special Corporation: Government Housing and Loan Guarantee Corporation; The image of reform: Urban Development Corporation; The image of reform: Japan National Oil Corporation
The image of reform: Japan External Trade OrganizationManipulation of operations to maintain JETRO; The disguise: convincing the Japanese media; The disguise: convincing the American media; The disguise: convincing Koizumi; JETRO's 'core focus': sowing the seeds of the ministry; Holding on to a good thing; 2 Amakudari in the Ministries' IAIs, Public Corporations, Research Institutes and Affiliated Agencies: the Insidious Side; No reforms in sight; Manifestations of amakudari: IAI/public corporations; Issues arising in research institutes; A consequence of amakudari in IAIs: bid-rigging
A consequence of amakudari in an IAI: incompetent management of the Social Insurance AgencyScandal and super-amakudari in a government corporation: Japan Post; Everything old is new again; 3 'Information-Sharing' is Not a Buzz-Word in Japan: Press Clubs Insulate an Insular Political Economy; Press clubs: information cartels control the flow of information; The whole truth and nothing but the truth; Press clubs and Japan Inc.; 4 Elements Intrinsic to Japan's Political Economy: Interlocking Interests between an Elite Bureaucracy and Big Business
Power struggle between politicians and bureaucratsThe origins of the power of the bureaucracy and government links with big business; The bureaucracy's power defined; Collaboration between the bureaucracy and big business: ministerial guidance and mercantilism (1898-1919); Japan's expansion in East Asia, outward investment and the benefits to big business; Recession: the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and industrial rationalization; The alliance between MCI and big business: the birth of 'administrative guidance'; The Manchurian Incident
The Second World War: the intensification of ministerial powers
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
International business enterprises.
Asia—Economic conditions.
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Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Industrial Organization.