Atomic Age II: Fukushima - Session III Roundtable - Japanese

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Yuki Miyamoto, Associate Professor in Religious Studies at DePaul University, leads a roundtable discussion in which audience members directed questions to a panel of speakers. The panelists included:

Norma Field, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago

Hiroaki Koide, nuclear reactor specialist and Assistant Professor at Kyoto University's Nuclear Research Institute

Ruiko Muto, anti-nuclear activist at Hair Action Fukushima

Bobbie Paul, executive director at Georgia Women's Action for New Directions

Jeffrey Patterson, board member of Physicians for Social Responsibility

Dean Wilkie, retired nuclear plant operator involved with Simply Info

Nancy Foust, online media expert at SimplyInfo

This symposium was sponsored by the Committee on Japanese Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Human Rights Program, and the Program on the Global Environment at the University of Chicago, and DePaul University.

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