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The tag 'Fukushima' is associated with 2 posts.

The Yakuza’s Cleanup Crew: It’s Not What You Think But Still Alarming

It has long been known that the yakuza are an impor­tant com­po­nent of Japan’s polit­i­cal pow­er struc­ture. It turns out that Japan’s nuclear pow­er struc­ture has a long his­to­ry with the yakuza too. This became an impor­tant real­i­ty short­ly after the Fukushi­ma cat­a­stro­phe. Seri­ous chal­lenges remain. Yakuza too.


Fitch downgrades Japan. Tsunamis and nuclear meltdowns take a back seat to austerity

Japan sur­prised the world with the strongest growth of any major devel­oped econ­o­my in the first quar­ter of 2012. So, of course, the aus­ter­i­ty gods are demand­ing their trib­utes.