Visualizing Nuclear Power in Japan

A Trip to the Reactor

By:

Morris Low

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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This book explores how Japanese views of nuclear power were influenced not only by Hiroshima and Nagasaki but by government, business and media efforts to actively promote how it was a safe and integral part of Japan’s future. The idea of “atoms for peace” and the importance of US-Japan relations were emphasized in exhibitions and in films. Despite the emergence of an anti-nuclear movement, the dream of civilian nuclear power and the “good atom” nevertheless prevailed and became more accepted. By the late 1950s, a school trip to see a reactor was becoming a reality for young Japanese, and major events such as the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and 1970 Osaka Expo seemed to reinforce the narrative that the Japanese people were destined for a future led by science and technology that was powered by the atom, a dream that was left in disarray after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

Author Biography:

Dr. Morris Low is Associate Professor of Japanese History at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Release date Australia

May 29th, 2021

Author

Morris Low

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2020

Illustrations

XIII, 260 p.

Pages

260

Series

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

ISBN-13

9783030472009

Product ID

34882225

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