{"id":2451,"date":"2013-07-10T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rescuejapan.jp\/_wp\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2013-07-10T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T02:30:31","slug":"japan-after-march-11-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rescuejapan.jp\/_wp\/?p=2451","title":{"rendered":"Japan After March 11: What Comes Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t          \t          <!--paging_filter--><\/p>\n<p>March 11, 2011 will be remembered as one of the darkest days in Japan\u2019s history. The most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan in recorded history produced a devastating tsunami with waves reaching heights of over 130 feet that in turn caused an unprecedented multireactor meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This triple catastrophe claimed almost 20,000 lives, destroyed whole towns, and will ultimately cost hundreds of billions of dollars for reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Samuels<\/strong> joins Asia Society Texas Center to offer a broad scholarly assessment of the disaster\u2019s impact on Japan\u2019s government and society. The events of March 2011 occurred after two decades of social and economic malaise-as well as considerable political and administrative dysfunction at both the national and local levels-and resulted in national soul-searching. Political reformers saw in the tragedy cause for hope: an opportunity for Japan to remake itself. Samuels explores Japan\u2019s post-earthquake actions in three key sectors: national security, energy policy, and local governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"h-divider\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>\n\tSchedule<\/h3>\n<p>Registration and Reception: 6:30 pm<br \/>\n\tProgram: 7:00 pm<br \/><em>Books will be available for sale at the program<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"h-divider\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>\n\tTickets<\/h3>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclickhosted_button_id=HNWRADM4NEH24\">here<\/a> to purchase a <strong>member<\/strong> ticket.<br \/>\n\tClick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclickhosted_button_id=DGYSQAMAWKXJ8\">here<\/a> to purchase a <strong>nonmember<\/strong> ticket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"h-divider\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>\n\tAbout the Author<\/h3>\n<p>Richard Samuels is Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for International Studies. He has been head of the MIT Political Science Department, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Japan of the National Research Council, and chair of the Japan-US Friendship Commission. He has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts  Sciences and was awarded an imperial decoration, the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star by the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>His study of the political and policy consequences of the 2011 Tohoku catastrophe, <em>3:11: Disaster and Change in Japan<\/em>, was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. Samuels&#8217; <em>Securing Japan: Tokyo&#8217;s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia<\/em>, was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book in international affairs. <em>Machiavelli&#8217;s Children<\/em> won the Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Jervis-Schroeder Prize from the International History and Politics section of American Political Science Association.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier books were awarded prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, the Association of American University Press, and the Ohira Memorial Prize. His articles have appeared in <em>Foreign Affairs<\/em>, <em>International Security<\/em>, <em>International Organization<\/em>, <em>Journal of Modern Italian Studies<\/em>, <em>National Interest<\/em>, <em>Journal of Japanese Studies<\/em>, and <em>Daedalus<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 11, 2011 will be remembered as one of the darkest days in Japan\u2019s history. 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