Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Accident: Lessons Learned

On March 11, 2011, a major tsunami struck northern Japan after a large earthquake rocked the capital of Tokyo and surrounding areas, leaving a vast path of devastation.  Shortly after the earthquake, a huge tsunami wave swept into the Fukushima Daiichi power plant which resulted in explosions and an ongoing radiological crisis.  This presentation will highlight the issues and challenges that are still being addressed and the lessons that have been learned to date from this incident. Speaker topics are the following: Why were they survived or not from Tsunami? Why did Tokyo get into a panic by nuclear accident? Why Fukushima residents did not evacuate as soon as possible? How should Japanese people treat food crisis by radioactive contamination? Can we recover Fukushima to the place that people can live again? What kinds of information did government provide to citizens when the accident happened?