Anna Wiemann: Networks and Mobilization Processes: The Case of the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement after FukushimaCornelia Reiher

ASIEN – Nr. 148 (2018) pp. 119–20

München: Iudicium, 2018. 297 S., 50 EUR

During the last years, the Japanese triple disaster of March 11 — the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear catastrophe — has been an important topic for scholars from Japanese studies and the social sciences around the globe. Scholars have for example written about the role of civil society in the reconstruction process in Tōhoku (Aldrich 2012), citizen scientists monitoring food (Kimura 2016, Sternsdorff 2018) and protests against nuclear power (Brown 2018). Seven years after the disaster, these publications not only address the events immediately following the disaster, but also the changes that occurred in the agenda of social movement actors, mobilization strategies and their success, public opinion, the Japanese government’s policies and their impact. Anna Wiemann’s timely book contributes to this growing body of literature on civil society actors and social movements in the aftermath of the triple disaster in Japan…