January 2021 Sheila Jasanoff, Stephen Hilgartner, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Onur Özgöde, Margarita Rayzberg Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cornell University, … Read More
20th June 2020 Satoru Ohtake The University of Tokyo Satoru is Project Professor in the Institute of Future Initiatives of … Read More
INGSA/Koi Tū EXCLUSIVE 22nd June 2020 Dan Jezreel A. Orendain and Riyanti Djalante United Nations University – Institute for the … Read More
6th April 2020 Tateo Arimoto National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies & Japan Science and Technology Agency The new Coronavirus … Read More
Nine years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, the government’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic shows it remains hamstrung in responding to crises, the head of the commission that investigated the Fukushima meltdown has said.… Read More
Japan’s bureaucrats are great at some things. Crisis management doesn’t seem to be one of them.
As it attempts to manage the fallout of the covid-19 coronavirus — which has taken the lives of more than 2,000 people worldwide, including a Japanese man and woman on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship — Japan is reliving the bureaucratic red-tape nightmares that hampered emergency efforts in Kobe in 1995 and Fukushima in 2011.… Read More
