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Understanding the Ongoing Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima: A “Two-Headed Dragon” Descends into the Earth's Biosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Fujioka Atsushi  and
Michael K. Bourdaghs
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This summer, I participated for the seventeenth time in the “Pilgrimage for Peace,” traveling to Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a group that included seventeen American students led by Professor Peter Kuznick of American University, seven international students from across Asia, and sixteen students from Japan. During our eleven days together, we had many discussions on the topic of “How to Understand the Relation between the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Hiroshima/Nagasaki.” Our Canadian coordinator and interpreter Norimatsu Satoko and two students from Fukushima introduced by Gotō Nobuyo made a special contribution to these discussions.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 37 , September 2011 , e3
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Footnotes

The Japanese original text is available: https://apjjf.org/data/doc.pdf

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1 Takagi Jinzaburō, Cherunobuiru genpatsu jiko shinsōban (Tokyo: Nanatsu Mori Shokan, 1986).

2 Ko Sanmyon and Takahashi Tetsuya, “Nihon no ariyō ga towarete iru,” Sekai (August, 2011), p. 112.

3 Yomiuri Shinbun (August 17, 2011).

4 Asahi Shinbun (July 10, 2011).

5 Hayakawa Yuki, “Hōshanōgumo wa kono yō ni zujō wo tsūka shita!,” Shūkan Kinyōbi (July 8, 2011), p. 22.

6 Nihon Keizai Shinbun (July 25, 2011).

7 Asahi Shinbun (August 8, 2011).

8 Asahi Shinbun (August 8, 2011).

9 Asahi Shinbun (May 11, 2011).

10 Asahi Shinbun, evening edition (August 20, 2011).

11 Shūkan Gendai (August 6, 2011), pp. 64-65. See also the interview published in the July 30 issue of the same magazine with the University of Ulster's Christopher Busby, scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risks (ECRR).

12 Mainichi Shinbun (July 26, 2011).

13 “Beikoku made hirogatta purutoniumu,” Norimatsu Satoko's interview with Christopher Busby, Shūkan Kinyōbi (July 8, 2011), pp. 24-25.

14 Asahi Shinbun (July 29, 2011).

15 Asahi Shinbun (July 21, 2011).

16 Asahi Shinbun (July 10, 2011).

17 Nakachi Shigeharu, “Suisan no osendo wo yomitoku,” Shūkan Kinyōbi (July 29, 2011), p. 18.

18 Nihon Keizai Shinbun (August 27, 2011).

19 Yagasaki Katsuma, “Naibu hibaku kakushi ha hōshasen giseisha kakushi,” Nihon no Kagakusha, Vol. 46, No. 8 (August 2011), p. 6.

20 Kakuheiki Kakujikken Monitaa, Vol. 373, No. 4 (April 15, 2011).

21 “Sakuma Tomoko Shabekurihōdai,” Oruta, No. 429 (August 2011), p. 38.

22 Hirokawa Ryūichi, “Cherunobuiru no nazo no ame,” DAYS JAPAN (July 2011), p. 43.

23 This estimate comes from the ECCR's Christopher Busby. See Shūkan Kinyōbi (July 8, 2011), p. 25.

24 Ashahi Shinbun (June 11, 2011).

25 Nihon Keizai Shinbun (August 17, 2011).

26 Asahi Shinbun (June 10, 2011).

27 Akahata (August 24, 2011).

28 DAYS JAPAN (September 2011), p. 18.

29 Christopher Busby, “The Health Outcome of the Fukushima Catastrophe.” A Japanese translation is also available.

30 Tanaka Toshiyuki, “‘Genshiryoku heiwa riyō ‘to Hiroshima: Senden kōsaku no tāgetto ni sareta hibakushatachi,” Sekai (August, 2011).

31 Ogura Shirō, “Genpatsu wo narabete jiei sensō wa dekinai,” Kikan Ribureiza, No. 3 (Summer 2007).

32 Mainichi Shinbun (June 17, 2011).

33 King James Version, Job 38:1-2, 12, and the source of the title for Pearl S. Buck, Command the Morning (1959).