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The Effect of the Publicness Crisis on the Overcoming Process of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

JiYoung Kim 1

1서울대학교 사회발전연구소

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to analyze the influence of prolonged economic slumpon Japan society in terms of publicness and how publicness crisis affect the way ofdeal with the problem related to Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is not natural disaster but structural disaster took placeby the publicness crisis accumulated for lost 20 years. Japan society has sufferedfrom rapid increase in irregular employment and widened the gap between socialclasses since 1990s bursting of bubble economy and the concern for fairness hasbeen also raised in this period. While most of industry undergo restructuring in2000s, however, electronic power company still hold onto their vested rightthrough Gensiryoku Mura(Nuclear Power Village) tightly-woven network of localpoliticians, industry executives, engineers who have become dependent on nuclearpower for jobs, income, and prestige. These publicness problems have a significantimpact on the economic policy resuming operation of nuclear reactors afterFukushima Nuclear Disaster. Through the analysis about the relation between publicness and disaster, this articlefinds that first, state-led publicness throw fairness, openness into crisis, second, thelengthy publicness crisis made public accept the policy of separating safety issuesfrom economic framework.

1. 문제제기

2. 경제버블 붕괴 이후 본격화 된 일본의 공공성 논의

3. 일본의 ‘잃어버린 20년’과 공공성

4. 공공성 관점으로 본 후쿠시마 원전사고

5. 나가는 말

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.