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The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Volume 9 | Issue 39 | Number 1 | Article ID 3606 | Sep 28, 2011 Japans Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Disaster Syndrome: An Unprecedented Form of Catastrophe Hirose Takashi Japans Earthquake-Tsunami- impossible that his warnings were unknown to Nuclear Disaster Syndrome: An the officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). U n p r e c e d e n t e d F o r m o f Catastrophe Updated with book review on October 22, 2011 Hirose Takashi Translated by C. Douglas Lummis The seismologist Ishibashi Katsuhiko (presently Emeritus Professor at Kobe University) predicted that a nuclear power plant accident like the present one was possible, and issued warnings from the late 90s. People had been warning of the danger of earthquake-caused nuclear accidents since the 1970s, but Ishibashi, from the specialized standpoint of seismology, proposed a new concept, which he called genpatsu shinsai [Translators note: this expression literally means Nuclear-Power- Plant-Earthquake Disaster. As there is no English expression for this (the phenomenon itself is new) in this work we will render it as (/dp/B005OD75J2/?tag genpatsu shinsai syndrome.]. By this he meant =theasipacjo0b-20) a situation in which, as the damage from the earthquake widens, the situation is made I myself published in August of last year (2010) doubly worse by nuclear radiation damage. It Genshiro Jigen Bakudan Daijishin ni Obieru was in the hope of preventing this that he was Nihonretto (Nuclear Reactor Time Bomb The issuing warnings. Ishibashi wrote many books Japanese Archipelago under the Danger of on this, including Daichidouran no Jidai (The Great Earthquakes) (Diamond) in which I tried Age of Shifting Earth)