Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan: A Trip to the Reactor - Brossura

Low, Morris

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ISBN 10: 3030472000 ISBN 13: 9783030472009

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Riassunto

<p>This book explores how Japanese views of nuclear power were influenced not only by Hiroshima and Nagasaki but by government, business and media efforts to actively promote how it was a safe and integral part of Japan’s future. The idea of “atoms for peace” and the importance of US-Japan relations were emphasized in exhibitions and in films. Despite the emergence of an anti-nuclear movement, the dream of civilian nuclear power and the “good atom” nevertheless prevailed and became more accepted. By the late 1950s, a school trip to see a reactor was becoming a reality for young Japanese, and major events such as the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and 1970 Osaka Expo seemed to reinforce the narrative that the Japanese people were destined for a future led by science and technology that was powered by the atom, a dream that was left in disarray after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.</p><p></p>

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dr. Morris Low is Associate Professor of Japanese History at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 3030472000
• ISBN 13: 9783030472009
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 276
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