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Managing Japan's Power Crisis -- The Conversation (Harvard Business Review blog)
Managing Japan's Power Crisis -- The Conversation (Harvard Business Review blog)
(2011-03-21)The power supply shortage resulting from the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan's Tohoku region on March 11, along with the threat of nuclear disaster that's followed, has created widespread chaos in the country. The threat to public health is the top concern, of course, but the situation also has widespread business implications: it's disrupting everything from rail transportation to manufacturing activities, including the auto industry.-- Also appears in: Eurasia Review
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Managing Japan's Power Crisis -- The Conversation (Harvard Business Review blog)
Japan's Nuclear Dilemma -- Eurasia Review (Op/Ed)
Japan's Nuclear Dilemma -- Eurasia Review (Op/Ed)

(2011-03-21)Monday morning quarterbacks are already asking why Japan, a country known for its frequent earthquakes and occasionally severe Tsunamis (a word that originated in Japan), would decide to build so many nuclear power plants, and site so many of them in coastal areas.

Japan's lack of domestic oil resources was a principal contributor to its role in the World War II, and the end of that war did not change the country's feeling of vulnerability to oil supply disruptions. A program to develop the peaceful uses of nuclear energy was initiated in 1954, and the first commercial reactors were built during the 1970s in cooperation with General Electric and Westinghouse.

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Japan's Nuclear Dilemma -- Eurasia Review (Op/Ed)
North Korea: Refugee Surveys Shed Light On Social Changes -- Eurasia Review
North Korea: Refugee Surveys Shed Light On Social Changes -- Eurasia Review

(2011-03-28)Since the collapse of North Korea’s centralized state economy during the country’s devastating famines in the 1990s, many ordinary North Koreans have turned to an underground market system as a means to survive, according to economist Marcus Noland, co-author of the recently published book “Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea,” based on large-scale surveys of North Korean refugees in China and South Korea.

As a result, more North Koreans have gained some access to foreign media, and more seem to be privately blaming the regime’s policies for the nation’s woes, Noland said in a talk at the East-West Center in Honolulu, where he is a nonresident Senior Fellow.

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North Korea: Refugee Surveys Shed Light On Social Changes -- Eurasia Review