"The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan...

Following a major earthquake off the Pacific coast of Japan, a tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three reactors in Fukushima, causing a major nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. Based on a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach we use panel data for 5,979 individuals...

Das Erdbeben vom 11. März 2011 hat Japans Energiesystem physisch schwer getroffen. Quantitativ weit schwerwiegender war jedoch der Einschnitt, den die Abschaltung von Kraftwerksleistung wegen Verdachts auf einen allen Atomkraftwerken gemeinsamen Auslegungsfehler mit sich brachte. Hans-Jochen...

This paper analyzes the impacts of the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, which were amplified by a failure of coordination across the plant, corporate, industrial, and regulatory levels, resulting in a nuclear catastrophe, comparable in cost to...