Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident

The Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation (RJIF) last September launched an Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident. The Chairman of the Investigation Commission, Koichi Kitazawa, posted a message, as did Yoichi Funabashi, Chairman of the RJIF.

The Commission published its report, in Japanese language only, in February 2012. Although the English language version will not be available until summer, the Commission has published a number of revealing, powerful English language summaries of the report:

East Asia Forum, "Lessons from Japan's nuclear accident," March 26, 2012;

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2012, "Fukushima in review: a complex disaster, a disastrous response";

"The End of Japanese Illusions," an op-ed in the New York Times/International Herald Tribune, March 11, 2012;

"My findings in Japan's existential fallout," Financial Times op-ed, March 9, 2012.