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Introduction

In: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis

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  • Susan Carpenter

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On 11 March 2011, Tohoku, Honshu’s northeast region, was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0. The quake’s epicenter was 70 km east of the Oshiku Peninsula and 250 km northeast of Tokyo. It was the most powerful on record in Japan and the fifth most powerful in the world. The Tokai and Kanto regions were also badly shaken. The earthquake caused severe structural damage to homes, shops, roads, bridges, railway lines, factories, schools and other infrastructure. A thirty-foot-high tsunami followed so swiftly that local residents whose homes and businesses were on the coast could not escape to higher ground. The tsunami destroyed entire villages along the coast and, according to the National Police report issued on 1 June, 15,281 people lost their lives, 8,492 people were missing, 5,363 were injured, 150,000 were homeless1 and 3,970 roads and 71 bridges were destroyed. The government estimated that the damage caused by the disaster was ¥17 billion ($211 billion).

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  • Susan Carpenter, 2012. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Japan’s Nuclear Crisis, pages 1-27, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36371-7_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230363717_1
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