We are happy to invite you to another session of our New York ICAS Korea Japan dinner program. We will meet on Sunday 24 November 2013 at 8pm in New York City. If you are interested in attending please email icas@tuj.temple.edu.



Kyle Cleveland: The Fukushima crisis and the politics of uncertainty
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Date: Sunday, November 24, 2013
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Venue:
New York City.
We will email details on the location to those who register.
Speaker:Kyle Cleveland, Associate Director of ICAS and Associate Professor of Sociology, Temple University Japan Campus
Admission: Free (Open to general public) RSVP:icas@tuj.temple.edu by November 23, 2013
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Dear friends,

Our friend Kyle Cleveland is doing path-breaking work on the politics of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, and will speak on issues related to how the US government interfaced with the Japanese government and TEPCO in the most dire days of that crisis. Based on intensive interviews with some of the principle actors in the U.S. State Department and Prime Minister's office, Department of Defense and Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Kyle has nuanced information on how these organizations sorted the crisis, ranging from assessing the dispersion of radioactive fallout to setting evacuation zones and facilitating the departure of D.O.D. dependents from Japan. Since 2011, Kyle has interviewed nuclear experts, public officials, NGO and citizen radiation monitoring groups and activists on how the nuclear crisis was addressed, and is writing a book on how radiation assessment is negotiated to establish public safety standards in this most contentious of issues.

Kyle has taught at Temple University's Japan campus for over 20 years, and founded our Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies. At the university he has held a number of administrative roles, and teaches courses in political sociology, race and ethnicity and Japanese popular and youth culture.(http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/main/undergrad/ab
out_tuj/faculty/kyle_cleveland.html)

We look forward to hearing from you. Should you wish to invite a friend or colleague please let us know, we will be happy to forward an invitation. If possible please RSVP a day before the session.



Sincerely,

Yoshiko Tanaka-Shichinohe (in Sapporo).
Nancy Yao Maasbach, Executive Director, Yale-China Association.
Robert Dujarric, Temple University Japan Campus, Tokyo.
Devin Stewart, Carnegie Council, New York City.
Mao (Nogawa) Nakai, Deloitte & Touche, New York

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Robert Dujarric
Director
Kyle Cleveland
Associate Director
Eriko Kawaguchi
Coordinator

Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies
Temple University, Japan Campus
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/