Schedule

Friday, February 24, 2012
3:00-3:15	Opening ceremony Welcome Marlene Moore, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Willamette University Opening remarks Hon. Takemichi Okabe, Consul General of Japan
3:15-4:30	Keynote address "The 3.11 Triple Disaster and Japan’s Environmental Past" Brett Walker, Regents Professor, Montana State University
4:30-4:45 p.m	Coffee Break
4:45-5:45	The Impact of the Fukushima Disasters on the Japanese People Moderator: Linda Tamura, Willamette University School of Education Carol Skowron, Senior Program Officer, Japan for Mercy Corps “Impressions on Recovery in Northeastern Japan” Katsuya Endo, Tokyo International University “Children and the Education in Fukushima after 3.11”
6:30 p.m.	Hosted dinner for presenters
Saturday, February 25, 2012
9:00-10:30	Information Flows and Risk Analysis in the Aftermath of the Crises Moderator: Steve Maser, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University Pablo Figueroa, Waseda University “Poor Risk Communication surrounding the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: The Importance of Citizen Participation” Majia Holmer Nadesan, Arizona State University “Lessons From Fukushima: Governments and the Media Will Deceive the Public and Withhold Vital Information, Leaving Citizens to Create Informal Information Sharing Networks” Yoko Ikeda, Independent Scholar “What Is at Risk?: A Perspective from Fukushima”
10:30-11:00	Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.	North American Perspectives on the Fukushima Disasters Moderator: Gunnar Gundersen, Tokyo International University of America Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear “Freeze Our Fukushimas”; Why We Must Permanently Close the GE Mark I Boiling Water Reactors” Anna Tilman (and co author Lisa Rumiel), International Institute of Concern for Public Health; co-author Lisa Rumiel, McMaster University “From Fukushima to the Great Lakes Basin” Warren Binford, Willamette University College of Law “Fallout from Fukushima: Nuclear Contamination and the Environmental Rights of Children”
12:30-1:45 p.m.	Lunch (no-host)
1:45-3:15	Personal experiences of 3.11: One year later Moderator: Cecily McCaffrey, Willamette University Brianna Harris, Independent Scholar “Living and Volunteering in the Tohoku Region” Out of Fukushima: Friends Brianna Harris, Independent Scholar Immediate Experiences of 3.11 Kenneth Hendricks, Willamette University Atsushi Yoshida, Willamette University/Tokyo International University Witnessing the Aftermath of 3.11 Emily Abraham, Willamette University Heather Hurlburt, Willamette University
3:15-3:30 p.m.	Closing remarks Ronald Loftus, Director of the Center for Asian Studies, Willamette University

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SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Pamela Smith
Gunnar Gundersen
Masaki Shimada
Tomoko Harpster
Barby Dressler
Salem Kawagoe Friendship Society
Consulate-General of Japan in Portland
Japanese Studies Student Leaders
Bryan Schmidt
Sarah Shinn
Linda Heuser
History Department, Willamette University
Koki Yamashita
Joanna Means
Sammy Basu