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The Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident has been delving into the causes of the nuclear accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and the failure to contain its damage from an independent, private-sector perspective. The Commission announced its 420-page Report after six months of thoroughgoing research and analysis on February 28th, 2012. A detailed testimony by one of the workers at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is the prologue of the Report. It describes what the worker saw and experienced during the first hours after the plant had been stricken by the earthquakes and tsunami. The main text consists of four parts:
| Part 1: | The damage and accident responses at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plants |
| Part 2: | The emergency responses taken by the government ministries, local governments and first responders; crisis management by Prime Minister’s Office; and the reality of chaotic evacuation |
| Part 3: | The historical context and structural factors that led to the negligence of safety improvement |
| Part 4: | Global contexts: International nuclear safety regime, nuclear security and US-Japan relations |
The English edition of the Research Investigation Report has been published from Routledge on March 6th 2014.