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Editors’ Note: Readers may be interested to know that a new edition of Hitoshi Yoshioka’s book Genshiryoku no shakaishi: sono Nihon-teki tenkai (A Social History of Nuclear Power: Its Development in Japan) was published by Asahi Shimbunshuppan in October 2011. Click here to view an
Editors’ Note: This is a Japanese translation of a Teach 3.11 annotation. We invite volunteers to translate and/or contribute content in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese languages. Thank you. 『ノーマル・アクシデント：高危険度技術とともに生きる』 Perrow, Charles. 1984, 1999. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. Princeton University Press.
Editor’s note: The author of this annotation translated this book into English in April, 2011, while an undergraduate at Pomona College in Claremont, California. prayforjapan.jp. PRAY FOR JAPAN: 3.11世界中が祈りはじめた日. 講談社, 2011. Purei fō japan dotto jēpī. PRAY FOR JAPAN : santen’ichiichi
We are pleased to announce the publication of an article in the September 2011 issue of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal introducing the Teach 3.11 project. With permission from Duke University Press, we have uploaded a proof of
Phalkey, Jahnavi. “Science, State Formation and Development: the Organization of Nuclear Research in India, 1938-1959.” Ph. D. diss., Georgia Tech University, 2007. Winner of the Sardar Patel Award (UCLA, 2008) for best dissertation on modern India. This recent dissertation, completed
Editor’s note: This week, we are pleased to feature contributions from Sofia University graduate students enrolled in Tak Watanabe’s 2011 spring semester classes in Tokyo, Japan. Hamblin, Jacob Darwin. 2008. Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste In The Oceans At The Dawn of The
Editor’s note: This week, we are pleased to feature contributions from Sofia University graduate students enrolled in Tak Watanabe’s 2011 spring semester classes in Tokyo, Japan. We begin with a film translation and subtitling project of a Japanese documentary that
Jasanoff, Sheila, and Sang-Hyun Kim. 2009. “Containing the Atom: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Nuclear Power in the United States and South Korea.” Minerva 47: 119-146. http://www.springerlink.com/content/y2738665782223l6/ By introducing the concept of “sociotechnical imaginaries,” this article examines and compares the historical differences
Ōmiya, Kōichi [大宮浩一]. 2011. Mujō Sobyō. 無常素描 [The Sketch of Mujō]. Tokyo: TOFOO Films. HD documentary film, 75 min., http://mujosobyo.jp/ Ōmiya Koichi’s The Sketch of Mujō [Mujō Sobyō] is the first documentary film to take a ground-level view of life
Edgington, David W. 2010. Reconstructing Kobe: The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity. University of British Columbia Press. [wptabs mode=”horizontal”] [wptabtitle] English[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] … we may not know fully if Kobe has provided Tokyo, or any other Japanese city, with the
Low, Morris, Shigeru Nakayama, and Hitoshi Yoshioka. 1999. “Technology versus Commercial Feasibility: Nuclear Power and Electric Utilities.” In Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan, 66-81. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This article is a chapter of a book coauthored by
Tokyo Modern I: Koizumi Kishio’s “100 Views” of the Imperial Capital (1928-1940), available at: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/tokyo_modern_01/index.html While people in Japan are still suffering from the shock of earthquakes and tsunami, soon there will be efforts to rebuild cities, villages, and the
Juraku, Kohta, Tatsujiro Suzuki, and Osamu Sakura. 2007. “Social Decision-making Processes in Local Contexts: An STS Case Study on Nuclear Power Plant Siting in Japan.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society 1 (1): 53-75. Available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/51243p18300u0n84/. In contrast to
Smits, Gregory. 2011. “Danger in the Lowground: Historical Context for the March 11, 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami.” The Asia-Pacific Journal 9 (20), May 16. http://www.japanfocus.org/-Gregory-Smits/3531 In the days and weeks following the disaster on March 11, 2011, the Japanese popular press revisited
Nelson, Craig. 2011. “‘The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow’: The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan.” Origins 4 (9) (June). http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/article.cfm?articleid=57. Ohio State University’s online journal Origins (tagline: “Current Events in Historical Perspective”) has published a highly accessible article by
Greene, J. Megan. 2008. “Starts and Stops,” The Origins of the Developmental State in Taiwan, 14-46. Harvard University Press. For those interested in the origins of nuclear energy research by Japan’s East Asian neighbors, Greene’s history of science policy in
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Petryna, Adriana. 2011. “Chernobyl’s survivors: Paralyzed by fatalism or overlooked by science?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67 (2): 30 -37. DOI: 10.1177/0096340211400177. Available at http://bos.sagepub.com/content/67/2/30.abstract. チェルノブイリ原発事故後のウクライナで調査した人類学者の論文。要旨は、国連などの放射能被害調査では、「危険性への誤った見解から生じるストレスが被害を甚大化させた」という論調で被害の決着化を図るが、1）そのような結論は被曝を回避するためにとった人々の行動と努力を無力化する、2）日本の原爆被害調査を鑑みれば、結論を出すにはさらに長期間を要する、3）ソ連崩壊・市場経済導入で長期にわたるデータ収集が断絶された、4）安全な被曝限度は時代と政治体制の文脈で変化する、5）被害補償を求める身体の政治化が継続している、などの理由で、放射能被害を今後も直視し続ける必要がある、と主張。 This is an article by Adriana Petryna, an anthropologist who conducted field work
Petryna, Adriana. 2011. “Chernobyl’s survivors: Paralyzed by fatalism or overlooked by science?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 67 (2): 30 -37. DOI: 10.1177/0096340211400177. Available at http://bos.sagepub.com/content/67/2/30.abstract. This is an article by Adriana Petryna, an anthropologist who conducted field work in
Editors’ Note: A new edition of this book was published in 2011 by Asahi Shimbunsha after this annotation was originally posted. Yoshioka, Hitoshi 吉岡斉. 1999. Genshiryoku no shakaishi: sono Nihon-teki tenkai. 原子力の社会史―その日本的展開. Asahi Shinbunsha. 朝日新聞社. Hitoshi Yoshioka gives an overview and
Karan, Pradyumna and Unryu Suganuma, eds. 2008. Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan. University Press of Kentucky. This edited volume consists of a number of interesting essays covering a wide range of issues and