Scholarship+from+Japan

Please note that this is a problematic category, other than highlighting the key works on Fukushima from Japan. All other entries should be integrated with other pages on this wiki. We would really appreciate the help of all scholars in expanding on these references, and integrating them where appropriate into the main body of the Wiki.

In any case, the purpose of the Forum is to also introduce U.S. and other non-Japanese scholars to the significant and growing body of Japanese scholarship. The earliest scholarly responses to the incident include Kainuma (2011), Yamamoto (2011), and Yoshioka (2011). Meanwhile, foundational studies that are already informing the interpretive work going on in Japan include Juraku, Suzuki and Osamu (2007), Sugawara and Kohta (2010), and Tateishi (2011) on the historical and engineering decision making background to Fukushima; Matsumoto (2002; 2009) for studies of the ”structural failure” between science and technology policy and societal systems during catastrophic crises; Suzuki (2004) for the most germane studies of past disasters in Japan such as the Kanto Dai-Shinsai; and Kodama (2011) for an analysis of the social conditions for stepwise decontamination procedures.


 * References**
 * Juraku Kohta, Suzuki Tatsujiro, and Sakura Osamu. 2007. Social decision-making processes in local contexts: an STS case study on nuclear power plant siting in Japan. //East Asian science, technology and society// 1/1:53-75.
 * Kainuma Hiroshi. 2011. //“Fukushima” ron: genshiryokumura wa naze umaretanoka// (Tokryo: Seidosha).
 * Kodama Tatsuhiko. 2011. Josen nitsuite ima wareware ni dekirukoto. //Kotoba// 5.58-61.
 * Matsumoto, Miwao. 2009. //Tekunosaiensurisuku to shakaigaku//. (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press).
 * __. 2002. //Chi no shippai to shakai// (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten).
 * Sugawara Shinetsu & Juraku Kohta. 2010. Ko reberu haikibutsu saishushobunjo ricchi purosesu omeguru kagakugijutsushakaigakuteki kosatsu. //Japan journal for science, technology & society// 19:25-51.
 * Suzuki Jun. 2004. //Kanto daishinsai//. (Chikuma shobo).
 * Tateishi Yuji. 2011. //Kankyomondai no kagakushakaigaku// (Kyoto: Sekaishiso-sha).
 * Yamamoto Yoshitaka. 2011. //Fukushima no genpatsu juko wo megutte: ikutsuka manabi kangaeta koto// (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo).
 * Yosioka Hitoshi. 2011. //Shinban: genshiryoku no shakaishi—sono Nihonteki tenkai// (Tokyo: Asahishinbun shuppan).