福岛以外 美日灾难管理的联合议程[20121116].pdf

N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 2 P O L I C Y B R I E FBeyond FukushimaA Joint Agenda for U.S.-Japanese Disaster ManagementRichard Danzig,Andrew M.Saidel and Zachary M.HosfordThe catastrophes that struck Japan on March 11,2011,created opportunities to improve the capabilities of both the United States and Japan to manage the consequences of future disasters as well as to strengthen the Japanese-American relationship.This paper describes those opportunities and offers a path to realizing them.Our aim is to illuminate how Japan and the United States can learn from each others experiences coping with past disasters and suggest how they might cooperate to respond more capably when unpredicted disasters strike in the future.We begin with a short account of efforts to cope with the consequences of the Japanese disaster in 2012,emphasizing challenges and successes in Japan-U.S.cooperation during the first two weeks.We then identify problems that govern-ment officials had in dealing with the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster and note the similarity with those that occurred during the 2005 response to Hurricane Katrina and other natural and ter-rorist disasters that have struck both countries.We co