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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Tokyo Olympics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Koide Hiroaki  and
Norma Field
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The Olympic games have always been used to display national might. In recent years, they have become tools for businesses, especially construction companies, which create, and then destroy, large public structures, leading to a colossally wasteful society from which they derive stupendous profit. What is important now is to give relief to those who continue to suffer from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and at the very least, to protect children, who are blameless, from exposure. Casting sidelong glances at the vast numbers of victims, the perpetrators, including TEPCO, government officials, scholars, and the media, have utterly failed to take responsibility.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 5 , March 2020 , e13
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