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Japanese Media and the Intelligentsia after Fukushima - Disaster Culture (Hardcover)
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Japanese Media and the Intelligentsia after Fukushima - Disaster Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
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How and why does a catastrophic disaster change public discourse
and social narratives? This is the first book to comprehensively
investigate how Japanese newspapers, TV, documentary films,
independent journalists, scientists, and intellectuals from the
humanities and social sciences have critically responded to the
Fukushima nuclear disaster over the last decade. In Japan, nuclear
power consistently had more than 70% support in opinion polls.
However, the Fukushima disaster of 2011 has caused a shift in
public opinion, and the majority of the population now desires an
end to nuclear power in Japan. Alternative energy and
countermeasures against climate change have thus become hot-button
issues in public discourse. Moreover, topics previously left
undiscussed have become common talking points among journalists and
intellectuals: Concealed power structural dynamics that work upon
Japan's politics, bureaucracy, industry, academia, and media;
Japan's peculiar, strong support for nuclear power, despite being a
nation subjected to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
and its latent ability to develop nuclear weapons by utilizing the
plutonium generated by its power plants; and Japan's dependence on
the US' nuclear umbrella. These discussions have often evolved into
macro-level controversies over 'Japan' and its 'modernity'. In this
book, Hidaka critically evaluates how the Fukushima disaster has
shaken hegemonic public discourse and compares it to the impact of
previous moments of 'disaster culture' in modern Japanese history,
such as The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Pacific War. Offers
vital insights into contemporary Japanese culture and social
discourse for students and scholars alike.
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