Japan's Nuclear Crisis

SUSAN CARPENTER is the managing director of International Markets Analysts Limited. She has worked for Japanese business and government organizations and also served as the Director of the MSc in International Business and Emerging Markets at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Her previous publications include Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy: Why Japan Can't Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and Why Japan can't reform: Inside the System (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

• Introduction Definition of the Ministries' IAIs, Including Historical Development. Ministries Involved in Nuclear Sector and Their IAIs. Portrait of Japan's Current Political Environment Japan's Pre-earthquake Economy METI's Electric Development Power Corp Ehime. Aomori, Fukushima and MOX: Prefectural Acceptance of Ministerial 'Guidance' in Return for Public Works Projects Don't Blame the Bureaucrats Blame the System Conclusion