Kay Kitazawa, RJIF Research Director’s article “Five years on, Japan’s crisis response infrastructure still lacking” was published in the East Asia Forum on March 5, 2016. The essay explores the vulnerability of Japan’s crisis management system by studying the responses of four hospitals located within a 20 to 30 kilometre radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Plant immediately after the 11 March disaster.

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