Dear Colleague,

We hope you have been well this week. We are delighted to invite you to the next Japanese Politics Online Seminar Series (JPOSS; http://jposs.org/):

*Pinar Temocin (Hiroshima University), "Rethinking Environmental Mobilization: Civic Engagement in Post Fukushima Japan" <https://jposs.org/event/temocin-12-2-2021/>* (https://jposs.org/event/temocin-12-2-2021/)

*Please register here <https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrd--opjooH9OFOEMboZ60G3C7sm5uvBw6>* (https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrd--opjooH9OFOEMboZ60G3C7sm5uvBw6)

U.S. EST: 8:00-9:00 PM, December 2 (Thursday)

JST: 10:00-11:00 AM, December 3 (Friday)

*Presenter*: Pinar Temocin (Hiroshima University)

*Discussants*: Mary Alice Haddad (Wesleyan University), Yasuo Takao (Curtin University)

*Chair*: Phillip Y. Lipscy (University of Toronto)

*Abstract:*

This study focuses on the interaction between environmental civil society organizations (ECSOs) and the Japanese state to find out how these actors have framed, articulated, and interpreted their goals for a nuclear-free policy and sustainable energy realities in the post-Fukushima era (3/11). It analyzes the extent to which environmental civil society actors have been influential in the energy decision-making process since 3/11.

It highlights the socio-political dimensions of nuclear energy issue including the efficacy level of ECSOs, the degree of functionality of governance, the interaction between vertical and horizontal dimensions of state-civil society partnership, and the dynamics of energy policy formation, implementation and development in contemporary Japan. It aims to play a reflective role on the nexus of energy politics, deliberative environmentalism, collective behavior.

The paper will be distributed about one week prior to the presentation. We look forward to your participation!

Best wishes,

Emma Duncan

JPOSS Administrative Support


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Emma Sachi Duncan (Pronouns: they/them/theirs)
Staff Assistant
Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Harvard University

Tel: (617) 495-1890

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