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February 3, 2017

[SSJ: 9697] YCAPS Seminar, 9 Mar "Radiation Rashomon: Assessment Politics in the Fukushima Crisis" with Prof. Cleveland

From: John F Bradford
Date: 2017/02/03

SSJ Friends,
YCAPS is pleased to invite you to "Radiation Rashomon: Assessment
Politics in the Fukushima Crisis" a seminar led by Prof. Kyle Cleveland
on
9 March in Yokosuka.
Please see details below of on YCAPS.org

Best regards,
John Bradford
President
Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS)
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*Professor Kyle Cleveland **Radiation Rashomon: Assessment Politics in
the
Fukushima Crisis*

*Date:*

Thursday, March 9, 2017

*Time:*

6:30 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. (Reception from 5:30 p.m.- 6:30 p.m.)

*Venue:*

Sogo Fukushi Kaikan Hall, Meeting Room 6 (4th Floor)
〒238-0041 2-1, Honcho, Yokosuka-shi
神奈川横須賀市本町2−1

*Speaker: *

Professor Kyle Cleveland, Associate Director, Institute of Contemporary
Asian Studies, Temple University, Japan Campus

*Admission:*

Free. Open to public

*Language:*

English

*Co-sponsors:*

Japan-U.S. Military Program (JUMP), Institute of Contemporary Asian
Studies

*RSVP:*

info@ycaps.org
* If you RSVP you are automatically registered. If possible, we ask you
to
RSVP but we always welcome participants even you do not RSVP.
Visit YCAPS.org
for
more information.

*Overview:*

The YCAPS executive committee is pleased to announce our fourth YCAPS-
JUMP
seminar: a presentation by Temple University Japan’s Institute of
Contemporary Asian Studies’Associate Director, Professor Kyle Cleveland.

Prof Kyle Cleveland will discuss how radiation exposure was assessed
during
the most dire phase of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, looking at the
emergency management of the crisis, focusing especially on how the level
of
risk was assessed by nuclear experts and state-level actors who worked
largely out of view of public scrutiny. In addition to examining how the
accident progression in the reactors was addressed and conveyed to the
general public, this presentation will show how the divergent
exclusionary
zone recommendations were determined by Japanese and foreign governments
in
Japan, and the implications this had for the U.S.-Japan Alliance, as the
U.S. Navy implemented Operation Pacific Passage and considered departing
from Japan. Based on interviews with political officials in both the
Japanese government and foreign embassies in Japan, and nuclear experts
and
military officers who worked the crisis, Dr. Cleveland's work analyzes
how
technical assessments drove decision making, were translated into
political
policy and impacted the diplomatic relations between Japan and the
United
States.

Start the evening by joining a 5:30pm-6:30pm reception, featuring a
light
meal, drinks and excellent conversation. Find seats at 6:30 for this
YCAPS-JUMP Seminar.


*Speaker:*

Kyle Cleveland is Associate Professor of Sociology at Temple University
’s
Japan Campus (TUJ), the faculty director of study abroad and honors
programming, and is the founding director (now Associate Director) of
the
university's Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS). Through
this
institute he has organized a lecture series, internship program, and
designed and administered special study abroad programs at TUJ. His
teaching and research interests are in political sociology, ethnicity,
globalization and Japanese cultural studies. As an International
Programs
administrator and TUJ's Study Abroad Advisor during the 3.11 Japan
disasters, he was involved in the university’s crisis management,
serving
as a liaison to U.S. - based study abroad providers, and at the height
of
the nuclear crisis chaperoned an emergency evacuation flight out of
Japan
with international students. He is writing a book on the political
dimensions of radiation assessment in the Fukushima nuclear crisis,
examining how foreign governments in Japan responded to the crisis

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