LESSONS NOT YET LEARNT: The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Japan’s Bureaucracy - Teruhiko Tsumura

Born in Hiroshima, Japan, Teruhiko currently resides in the UK. After graduating university in the USA in 1989, he worked for a Tokyo-based international development consultancy for 13 years as an energy economist and project manager for electricity and gas infrastructure development projects. During that period, he served as an advisor to the Ministry of Electricity of Ukraine for two years. In 2001, he moved to the UK and founded a business consulting firm, London Research International. Since then, he has provided strategic advice to his clients, primarily in the energy sector, for a quarter of a century.

GENRE: Non-fiction critical

Blurb:

The Fukushima nuclear accident was a man-made disaster, the root cause of which was regulatory capture. This was the conclusion of the Investigation Commission. However, the factors behind regulatory capture have not yet been examined, and there is a possibility that a similar accident could occur again. Using the electricity industry regulation as an example, the author points out the inherent problems with it and demonstrates that the government and bureaucracy have not learned the lessons.