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Forbidden Colors: Homosexuality has traditionally been accepted in Japan, but the country’s laws have yet to catch up
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 49–53.
Published: 01 March 2018
... as his associations with Andy Warhol, Karl Lagerfeld, and Yves Saint Laurent. In the past, the column picked mostly business leaders and other famous people who at least appeared straight. In more recent decades, especially since around the time Mishima’s heirs sued Jiro Fukushima and his publisher...
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Walking the Wall
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 100–112.
Published: 01 June 2014
... could not transmit enough electricity to help out the 50 Hz side of the country, where Tokyo and other industrial cities are found. TEPCO, the biggest electricity company in Japan, lost the most generating capacity. All of its nuclear plants were shut down rather rapidly. Fukushima units 1 and 4 were...
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Change Management
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 June 2014
... people so deeply crave. Transgender politics are becoming an increasingly fraught point of contention in India, as Jeff Roy explains from Koovagam. And the remarkable journey of Japan away from nuclear self-sufficiency to the post-Fukushima era is the little-understood tale woven by Paul Sullivan...
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Kicking the Oil Addiction: Facts and Fiction
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 53–61.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of CO 2 are far more dangerous because they destabilize the entire biosphere. Nuclear incidents, even as serious as Chernobyl or Fukushima, can be avoided or at least minimized. They are local events. By contrast, when CO 2 molecules are released, nothing can stop them. Whether they are released...
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Anatomy of Fusion: The Reactor of the Future
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 40–44.
Published: 01 September 2011
... melt down like Fukushima, and the weapons proliferation risk is small—unlike fission. While some commentators argue that fusion is too far off, the science and technology is actually moving rapidly forward. In the 1970s, fusion scientists were delighted to produce one-tenth of a watt of heat...
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Innovation Starvation
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 11–16.
Published: 01 September 2011
... side effects. This seems foolish now that we find ourselves saddled with technologies like Japan’s ramshackle 1960’s-vintage reactors at Fukushima when we have the possibility of clean nuclear fusion on the horizon. The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale...
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Hedging Disaster
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 120–129.
Published: 01 December 2014
... as Japan. Now, Japan, for one, is seeking to recover its mojo. The tsunami that caused the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster of 2011 could not have come at a worse moment. The nation’s growth rate had shrunk to barely 1 percent, and these two catastrophes would push it into negative territory...
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Contesting Peace: Why Japan Needs A Real Debate on Pacifism
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 12–20.
Published: 01 September 2016
... against the security bills last year, 30,000 to 35,000 people, according to official estimates, took to the streets of Tokyo. It was a scene reminiscent of anti-nuclear demonstrations following the Fukushima disaster, another dramatic instance in which the government’s definition of “security” was openly...
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