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This chapter analyses the victims’ movement (tōjisha undō) opposing the termination of rent-free public housing provided to evacuees following the Fukushima nuclear disaster between March 2011 and March 2017. This housing policy was a lifeline, particularly for approximately 25,000 ‘voluntary evacuees’ (jishu hinansha), people who had relocated at their own expense without any official evacuation order. The analysis focuses on six key points and pitfalls in the advocacy of victims’ movements, building on previous research on victims’ movements in Japan. It identifies bureaucratic conciliatory measures which exploit victims’ trust in government benevolence as a key pitfall that can undermine the strengthening of victims’ movements.

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A Fukushima Victims’ Movement: Submitting to Bureaucratic Conciliatory Measures

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    2026年

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  • Ayaka Löschke

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This chapter analyses the victims’ movement (tōjisha undō) opposing the termination of rent-free public housing provided to evacuees following the Fukushima nuclear disaster between March 2011 and March 2017. This housing policy was a lifeline, particularly for approximately 25,000 ‘voluntary evacuees’ (jishu hinansha), people who had relocated at their own expense without any official evacuation order. The analysis focuses on six key points and pitfalls in the advocacy of victims’ movements, building on previous research on victims’ movements in Japan. It identifies bureaucratic conciliatory measures which exploit victims’ trust in government benevolence as a key pitfall that can undermine the strengthening of victims’ movements.