communicate with each other? What is the impact
of silence in an organization? What implications does good communication
have on the performance of an organization? How can people improve their
cross-cultural communication without affecting the performance of the
organization? These are some of the few questions that this paper seeks to
answer with a case study of Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in Japan. The
paper shall also explore the preceding communication events in both
government agencies and the private sector.
The disaster and Daiichi nuclear plant occurred in March 11, 2011.
The commission charged by the responsibility of investigating the causes of
the disaster concluded that the disaster was foreseeable prior to March 11
2011, and thus would have been avoided. The same sentiments were echoed by
the private sectors and foreign bodies within the region. They strongly
argued that Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe was a pre
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