From the Origins blog – “‘The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow’: The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan”

The devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan this past March left the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled and the world worrying about the consequences of this nuclear disaster. This month Craig D. Nelson looks at the long relationship the Japanese have had with nuclear power to explore the paradox of how the nation that suffered nuclear destruction in 1945 came to embrace nuclear energy so enthusiastically.

These Youtube videos feature discussion on whether the nuclear explosion and subsequent radiation exposure have been as bad at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as they were after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine, in 1986.

Press TV – “Japanese govt. under fire for schoolyard radiation”

Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences – “Japan’s  nuclear history in perspective: Eisenhower and atoms for war and peace” (April 13, 2011)

John Dower article (In Japanese)