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Griffith Asia Institute Featured Publication Purchase the book from Ashgate press For a country already uneasy about energy security, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which caused a nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, turned pre-existing Japanese concern about the availability of energy into outright anxiety. The subsequent closure of many nuclear reactors meant […]

Professor Tatsujiro Suzuki, Vice Chairman of Japan’s Atomic Energy Commission, talks to ABC Radio National about the Fukushima nuclear plant.  Professor Suzuki was in Brisbane attending the Griffith Asia Institute’s annual Australia-Japan Dialogue.  The 2013 Dialogue was on the topic of Energy Security and was supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Japan Foundation of […]

Before the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011, just two years ago yesterday, Asia was seen as the nuclear powerhouse of the future, but in the immediate aftermath of the nuclear catastrophe there was much uncertainty about the industry’s Asian, and global, future. Some analysts suggested that Asia’s […]

“Recent data shows Japan posted a record high trade deficit of ¥6.93tn (A$73.16bn) in 2012. Japan is struggling with rising imports as it tries to replace the energy lost when it shut down of most of its nuclear reactors following the March 11, 2011 Fukushima disaster.”   Dr Vlado Vivoda discusses the political and economic […]