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... for March 11's victims, especially regarding TEPCO's portion of the disasters (McNeill 2011 ). To begin with, those in shelters because of the earthquake and tsunami have raised concerns that their needs will become secondary, or worse, forgotten in the whorl surrounding the reactors. Their apprehensions...

... challenging TEPCO with collective court litigation. The courtroom becomes a place of dramatic confrontation, between the confident assurances and smooth evasions of TEPCO lawyers and the assertive counter-narratives of the evacuees. And Satsuki Takahashi's research was with several fishing communities...

... by technoscientific progressivism regarding waste management. Radioactivity is described in ways that allow us to see it as something more than an object of prefectural cleanup. For example, citing the efforts of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to avoid responsibility for the impossible cleanup...

... among TEPCO, MITI, the Electric Power Development Company, and the Science and Technology Agency. I would urge Gale to continue working on a careful study of TEPCO conflict with MITI: up to now studies have focused on MITI's ability to enforce administrative guidance, and we come away...

... for the utility of the U.S.-Japan alliance. However, the Americans must have been extremely irritated at the unexpectedly fragile nature of the crisis control systems of both the Japanese government and TEPCO, and have feared that the chaos might lead them to squander this rare opportunity for the alliance...

... or a reorientation in its military capabilities. In a similar vein, the nuclear accidents at Fukushima brought TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) to its knees, but they have yet to significantly weaken Japan's dependence on nuclear energy. Local governance has experienced the most change since 3.11, but again, its...

... out citizen activists to make sure that a TEPCO nuclear power plant would be constructed without delay or obstruction (pp. 130–31). He provides numerous examples of how procedures and the hearing processes were structured to give the appearance of consultation and inclusion, but really were designed...

... to March 2011, Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) and other power companies had sold customers hundreds of thousands of “all-electric home” kits that included solar panels and the guarantee of back-up power as well as the agreement to buy back any excess power the household produced. Advertisements billed...

... Plant in Fukushima Prefecture that came to be attributed to negligence and a cover-up by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). In addition, those local communities that had accepted nuclear power plants in return for large subsidies were also criticized in the aftermath of Fukushima (19–20). I...

.../behind-every-great-woman-01042012.html#p4 (accessed June 27, 2012 ). Jobin Paul . 2011 . “ Dying for TEPCO? Fukushima's Nuclear Contract Workers .” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 9 ( 18/3 ). http://www.japanfocus.org/-Paul-Jobin/3523 (accessed on July 17, 2012 ). Kyōdō . 2012...

... of the Fukushima nuclear plant ( Tōkyō Denryoku , the Tokyo Electric Power Company; universally referred to by its acronym, TEPCO), and the journalists who cover them. The basic point was that it had been inconceivable that events of such magnitude could occur and interact so simultaneously with such catastrophic...