Japan’s Nuclear PolicyKinya Niiseki

ASIEN – Nr. 2 (1982) pp. 49–58

It is perhaps the most significant paradox in the modern Japanese history that the only country which has experienced the holocausts of the atomic bombs should be the country with the urgent need to develop and utilize nuclear energy.

Japan is an extreme example of an industrially advanced country which has a relatively large population without any meaningful indigenous energy resources. That is to say, Japan is entirely dependent on energy imports from foreign countries to sustain its highly developed national economy.