At the begging of the week, I conducted a QDA of NYT articles. I read with great interest an article about China promoting nuclear power generation and an article about education ideas. When I tried to write them, I realized that the preceding sections were halfway through. So, I adjusted the writing of section 5.1 (analytical framework) and section 5.2 (internet search). It took me 2-3 days to write the result of the qualitative data analysis of the google and JDA search results.
During that, I submitted ICSD 2022 abstract. It was about the Chapter5 described below.
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"What has been described by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear accident?"
There is a vast amount of information and literature on the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. Media and various scholars not only in Japan but also abroad have paid attention to the disaster, and in the 10 years following the disaster, many records and research papers have been archived. This presentation will report the results of a qualitative data analysis of information gathered from Internet searches, newspaper articles, academic papers and books, and interviews with scholars. Information was collected in both Japanese and English for comparative study. For example, newspaper articles were collected from the Asahi Shimbun and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Interviews were conducted with political scientists, historians, anthropologists, disaster scholars, journalists, and archivists in Japan and the US. The collected information will be published in the Japan Disasters Digital Archive operated by the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies at Harvard University (some portion is already available to the public.) I'll organize what has been said about the massive disaster so far, and consider the relationship between the disaster and social trends and structures from the historical viewpoint. Important social trends and structures include long-term economic stagnation and an aging population with low birth rates.
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For a change of pace, I decided to travel to San Francisco and Los Angeles from May 20. On the weekend, I booked flights and hotels. I'm still considering that I rent a car and visiting San Diego. On Sunday, I played tennis at the Boston Tennis Club and had lunch with Nakazato-san.
