Them versus Us: Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

David McNeill

Chapter Chapter 2 in Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies, 2013, pp 17-34 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract On April 7, 2011, as Japan tottered back to its feet from the March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, I chaired a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) by Higashikokubaru Hideo, then a candidate for Tokyo’s gubernatorial election. A famous comedian before he entered politics, Higashikokubaru was uncharacteristically somber as he discussed what Japan must do to recover from the terrible damage inflicted by the disaster. A major problem, he intoned, was the non-Japanese reporting of the nuclear crisis in Fukushima. “Do you think we foreign journalists have done a bad job of reporting the disaster?” I asked him, and he turned, unsmiling, to face me full on for the first time. ‘Yes, I do,” he said.

Keywords: Personal Interview; Nuclear Plant; Nuclear Accident; Exclusion Zone; Nuclear Disaster (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137364166_2

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