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On March 11, 2011, Japan, the only nation attacked with nuclear weapons in the entirety of human history, abruptly got caught in another tragic, nationally traumatizing event, Hibaku—a Japanese word that means people and societies suffering from massive nuclear or radioactive fallout—without the slightest prior notification or pre-warning.
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Ota, M. (2012). The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and Its Political and Social Implications. In: Youngshik, B., Pempel, T.J. (eds) Japan in Crisis. Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137350718_2
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