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Japan's government faces looming crisis over ‘whack-a-mole’ nuclear policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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Like most Japanese parents, two months ago Sasaki Takayuki barely knew what radiation was. Today, he thinks about little else. “I’ve sent my kids to my wife's family in Tokyo,” says the baker and father of two. “I told her to stay there till it's safe but who knows when that will be? We’ve all been left in the dark.”

Seven weeks since the start of Japan's worst nuclear crisis, political tremors are intensifying in the prefecture that hosts the ruined Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Mr. Sasaki is among thousands of parents in the prefecture, about 250 km northeast of Tokyo, demanding that the government of Prime Minister Kan Naoto reverse a decision to hike radiation limits for schools in the area by 20 times.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 54 , December 2012 , e54
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Footnotes

Between 2012 and 2014 we posted a number of articles on contemporary affairs without giving them volume and issue numbers or dates. Often the date can be determined from internal evidence in the article, but sometimes not. We have decided retrospectively to list all of them as Volume 10, Issue 54 with a date of 2012 with the understanding that all were published between 2012 and 2014.