Nautilus Peace and Security Weekly – 8 May 2014

Nautilus Peace and Security Weekly – 1 May 2014

The Japanese Energy Sector and Nuclear Spent Fuel Scenarios

by Kae Takase 29 April 2014 From the Governance Design Laboratory (GDL), originally published on December, 2013. I. INTRODUCTION: Brief history of the japanese energy sector The Japanese economy, as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) grew rapidly during the 1960s through the1980s.  In 1991, what has been called Japan’s “ bubble economy”, crashed, ushering […]

Policy Forum – Japan’s Energy Policy Impasse

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by Andrew DeWit 22 April 2014 Andrew DeWit is Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Rikkyo University and an Asia-Pacific Journal coordinator. With Iida Tetsunari and Kaneko Masaru, he is coauthor of “Fukushima and the Political Economy of Power Policy in Japan,” in Jeff Kingston (ed.) Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan.This […]

Nautilus Peace and Security Weekly – 17 April 2014