"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Music, Musicians, and Anti-Nuclear Protest in the Post-Fukushima Era" - www

Despite Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan has pursued a program of expanding nuclear power, enabled by close relationships between electric power companies, central and local governments, and the media that go back to 1954. Generous grants have kept rural villages willing to host nuclear power plants, while heavy advertising spending by electric power and affiliated companies—about four times Toyota's—may have left mainstream media reluctant to carry non-official information on the Fukushima plant;