Japan's Nuclear Crisis: The Routes to Responsibility - Paperback

by S. Carpenter (Author)

An analysis and exploration into the impact of Japan's 2011 nuclear crisis. Investigation of the disaster will pose questions regarding why Daiichi was constructed in an earthquake-prone zone and was still operating despite problems that had been plaguing the reactors since 1989 such as cracks in infrastructure and leaks in radioactivity.

Author Biography

SUSAN CARPENTER is the managing director of International Markets Analysts Limited. She has worked for Japanese business and government organizations and also served as the Director of the MSc in International Business and Emerging Markets at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Her previous publications include Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy: Why Japan Can't Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and Why Japan can't reform: Inside the System (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).