{"id":10243,"date":"2021-03-10T14:14:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T14:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=10243"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T14:14:45","slug":"ignoring-catastrophe-as-a-way-of-life-comments-on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-the-fukushima-nuclear-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2021\/03\/10\/ignoring-catastrophe-as-a-way-of-life-comments-on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-the-fukushima-nuclear-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring catastrophe as a way of life: Comments on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Ignoring catastrophe as a way of life: Comments on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comments on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THE ASIA INSTITUTE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 11, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emanuel Pastreich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kawanaka Yo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researcher <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although ten years have passed since the Daiichi Fukushima Nuclear Power plant started to release massive amounts of radiation into the environment, Japanese have become oddly accustomed to this disaster which promises to continue for thousands of years. Emanuel Pastreich, president of the Asia Institute, and Kawanaka Yo, researcher at the Asia Institute, discuss what happened at the time of the accident and the current state of Japanese society in the aftermath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1200' height='675' src='https:\/\/video.wordpress.com\/embed\/D7JAA5Dk?preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1739540970'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ignoring catastrophe as a way of life: Comments on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster Comments on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster\u201d THE ASIA INSTITUTE News March 11, 2021 Emanuel Pastreich President Kawanaka Yo Researcher Although ten years have passed since the Daiichi Fukushima Nuclear Power plant started to release &#8230; <a title=\"Ignoring catastrophe as a way of life: Comments on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2021\/03\/10\/ignoring-catastrophe-as-a-way-of-life-comments-on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-the-fukushima-nuclear-disaster\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ignoring catastrophe as a way of life: Comments on the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}