Highlights

Energy
Investigating the theory that “Nuclear Power Plants = Nuclear Weapons Factories”Significance for national military strategy NEW

Morinosuke Kawaguchi is a member of the Fukushima Project, a non-profit group established to investigate the nuclear accident. He is Principal and Associate Director of the global consulting firm, Arthur D. Little, (Japan) Inc. Here he examines the significance of nuclear power in terms of national military strategy.

Energy
An Inquisition into the Essence of FukushimaAdvice from Experts Did Not Reach NEW

Associate Professor Iio, Nuclear Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, showed his views as “the result would be different if the assembled wisdoms from over the world would have been applied from the very beginning stage”, as well as the defect of counter measures against tsunami.

Energy
Fukushima DisasterWhat was the key factor which brought about the Nuclear Power Plant Disaster?

“The disaster which occurred at the TEPCO (Tokyo Electronic Power, Co.) Fukushima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant, was simply brought about by human errors on the side of the technology management, and not by disaster or coincidence. This accident was 100% predictable.” ---noted Professor Eiichi Yamaguchi, Doshisha University, Deputy Director of Institute for Technology Enterprise and Competitiveness (ITEC).

Reconstruction Management
Fukushima is a “Gold Mine”Lessons that we can learn

The IAEA Inquiry Commission dispatched to Japan released an interim report asking the international atomic energy community to make use of the unique opportunity provided by Fukushima to improve the safety of nuclear power plants. Japan on the other hand should judge the lessons learnt from a responsible and fair viewpoint.

Business Continuity Plans (BCP)
The information network that went to pieces

The entire world is watching to see how we deal with our national crisis after the great earthquake in Eastern Japan. This article proposes how ICT can contribute to the country in the recovery and reconstruction process.

Power Saving, Summer Time
Newer business strategies in response to the power saving in this searing summer

With the introduction of summertime working hours, companies in food and retail services are starting to develop new business strategies to take advantage of the change in the consumer shopping pattern.

SCM and Production Systems
Mr. Jitsuro Terashima speaks [For a revival plan in which the people participate]~Rebuild Nippon · Symposium Report~

On the 7th of June at the "Rebuild Nippon" symposium in Tokyo, Mr. Jitsuro Terashima, President of Japan Research Institute, took the stage as speaker and proposed the creation of a revival plan in which both young and old alike could participate.

Changes in Consumption Structure
Kyushu marketing its ‘distance from Fukushima’ to visitors from China

In early June, a delegation headed by Nagasaki Governor held a series of conferences at Shanghai and Beijing with the aim of attracting tourists from China. Seven prefectures of Kyushu are now working together to regain the lost tourists from China after The Great East Japan Earthquake.

Reconstruction of Infrastructure
Think about the car as an energy source (Part 3)Third installment: The latent potential of fuel cell vehicles

This is the last installment of a 3-part series on cars as a source of energy with more examples of experiments by automakers.

The Great East Japan Earthquake not only left large and deep wounds on people in the disaster area but also had an enormous impact on industrial circles in both Japan and around the world. Now these industrial circles are fervently tackling the challenge of not simply returning to the status before the earthquake but building a creative reconstruction process embracing new ideas.

Through over 50 periodicals, websites and other platforms, Nikkei Business Publications covers such specialist fields as management, the environment, information technology, electronics, construction, manufacturing, medicine and lifestyle, forming deep bonds with these industrial circles as well as with the consumers. With the process of reconstruction requiring a cross-industry approach rather than separate efforts made by individual industries, now is the time for us to band together and deliver information toward the rebooting of Japan. It is with this sense of determination that the chief editors of all of Nikkei BP's media platforms have come together to launch Rebuild Nippon.

Future generations will most likely be looking back on the next few years and describing it as a major historical turning point. Our goal with the Rebuild Nippon website will be to explore and discover how we should be stepping out toward the future.


(Mamoru Harada, Editor- in-Chief, Rebuild Nippon)