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If you think that the nuclear disaster at fukushima hasnt really affected you too much because you live so far away from it, think again. The book provides a broad and nuanced picture of the varied literary responses to this ongoing tragedy, focusing on serious fiction junbungaku, the one area of japanese cultural production that has consistently addressed the. The book will evaluate and discuss the postfukushima situation. The earthquake lasted some 6 minutes on the land closest to the earthquake and the tsunami, created by the quake, arrived some 50 minutes after the. Lessons in leadership from the fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan lifts evacuation order for town hit by fukushima disaster. When we hear the words fukushima disaster, most of us think of fukushima daiichi, the nuclear power plant wracked by three core meltdowns and three reactor building explosions following the. The accident was started by the tohoku earthquake and tsunami on friday, 11 march 2011. World is ignoring most important lesson from fukushima nuclear disaster. Nuclear disaster at fukushima daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the fukushima daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on japans northeast coastline on march 11, 2011.
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