IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-137-36416-6_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Them versus Us: Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

In: Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies

Author

Listed:
  • David McNeill

Abstract

On April 7, 2011, as Japan tottered back to its feet from the March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, I chaired a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan (FCCJ) by Higashikokubaru Hideo, then a candidate for Tokyo’s gubernatorial election. A famous comedian before he entered politics, Higashikokubaru was uncharacteristically somber as he discussed what Japan must do to recover from the terrible damage inflicted by the disaster. A major problem, he intoned, was the non-Japanese reporting of the nuclear crisis in Fukushima. “Do you think we foreign journalists have done a bad job of reporting the disaster?” I asked him, and he turned, unsmiling, to face me full on for the first time. ‘Yes, I do,” he said.

Suggested Citation

  • David McNeill, 2013. "Them versus Us: Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting (ed.), Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies, chapter 0, pages 17-34, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-36416-6_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137364166_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-36416-6_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.