The political and policy fall-out from the Japanese earthquake and tsunami
18 March 2011
Author: Aurelia George Mulgan, UNSW@ADFA
In the week before Japan’s earthquake and tsunami, observers quipped that Prime Minister Kan needed a major disaster to rescue his administration. Well, he got one, at a terrible price to his nation, and it certainly took the immediate heat off his administration — coming from members of his own party as well as from the opposition.