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    Is Post-Fukushima Reform Making Japan Safer? From Shared Responsibility to Collective Accountability

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    Authors
    Takao, Yasuo
    Date
    2023
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Takao, Y. 2023. Is Post-Fukushima Reform Making Japan Safer? From Shared Responsibility to Collective Accountability. Japanese Studies. 43(1): pp. 49–69.
    Source Title
    Japanese Studies
    DOI
    10.1080/10371397.2023.2184332
    ISSN
    1037-1397
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    Remarks

    This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Japanese Studies on 01 Mar 2023 available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10371397.2023.2184332.

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90698
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Ten years after the Fukushima disaster, the nuclear safety regulation system in Japan has gradually moved from the exclusionary process of policy making, based on hierarchically organized policy, to a decentralized and open process of policy making whose competence is divided beyond the pre-given political actors. Yet policy making and implementation need to bring together multiple stakeholders to work in concert to achieve a desired outcome of nuclear safety. This article seeks to explain why the trend towards more inclusive forms of policy making may still lead to negative consequences for democratic accountability of nuclear safety. The author argues that the coordination issue becomes critical to a plurality of conflicting interests and beliefs of autonomous stakeholders. Although the decision-making plurality favours democratic interest representation, empirical evidence suggests that a poorly coordinated response by the national government to nuclear policy implementation fails to get stakeholders to work together for Japan’s nuclear safety. From a broader perspective, the lack of coordination among different stakeholders is one of the weaknesses of expanding accountability mechanisms to include more stakeholders, and results in challenges to policy coherence.

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