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*From a Golden Age to Nuclear Nightmare:
Japan's Energy Policy after 3/11*

*Date:* Friday, November 25, 2011 *Time:* 7:00p.m.
(Talk will start at
7:30p.m.) *Venue:*
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*Speaker: *
*Tatsujiro Suzuki*, the Vice Chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, Office of the Prime Minister of Japan *Daniel Aldrich*, Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University
*Moderator:*
Kyle Cleveland, Associate Professor, Temple University Japan Campus
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*Outline*

"From a Golden Age to Nuclear Nightmare: Japan's Energy Policy after 3/11,"
a symposium featuring Tatsujiro Suzuki, the Vice Chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, and Daniel Aldrich, Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University, who will discuss the politics of nuclear energy in Japan.

The Fukushima Nuclear crisis has brought unprecedented attention to Japan's energy policy, and called into question the legitimacy of public institutions, as the Japanese government and TEPCO's response has provoked public outrage about collusive interests, corporate malfeasance and the ineptitude of the organizations charged with dealing with this crisis.
While the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent Tsunami caused catastrophic environmental and structural damage to the region, it also exposed longstanding features of the Nuclear Village, and raised questions about how Japan can move forward to develop energy policy in a contentious political environment. With local governments and activist citizen groups challenging the siting of reactors in their vicinity and political activism on the rise amidst widespread public dissent, the nuclear crisis may fundamentally change the nature of civil society in Japan.

This symposium will address the political implications of Japan's nuclear crisis and consider the short term public safety concerns and the long term prospects for Japan to reduce its dependency on nuclear power and adhere to global governance for nuclear safety.

*Panelists*

*Profile of Daniel Aldrich*
Daniel P. Aldrich* *received his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from Harvard University, an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his B.A.
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor Aldrich has focused on the ways in which state agencies interact with contentious civil society over the siting of controversial facilities such as nuclear power plants, airports, and dams. His current research investigates how neighborhoods and communities recover from disasters.

He has published two books, 17 peer-reviewed articles, and numerous op eds and articles for general audiences.
His research has been funded by grants from the Abe Foundation, IIE Fulbright Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Reischauer Institute at Harvard University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Harvard’s Center for European Studies. He has been a visiting scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance, the Institute for Social Science at Tokyo University, Harvard University, the Tata Institute for Social Science in Mumbai, the Institut d’etudes politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and the East West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He has spent more than three years conducting fieldwork in Japan, India and France.

*Profile of Tatsujiro Suzuki*
Dr. Tatsujiro Suzuki* *is currently a Vice Chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission. Previously, he was the Associate Vice President of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Japan, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics of Japan. He was a visiting professor of the Graduate School of Public Policy of the University of Tokyo.

Dr. Suzuki holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Tokyo and MS in Technology and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Suzuki is a former member of the Pugwash Council.

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*Robert Dujarric*
Director* *
*Kyle Cleveland*
Associate Director
*Eriko Kawaguchi*
Coordinator

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