Martin Fackler, journalist, writer, and Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), was recently featured in The Harvard Gazette in an article titled "How deadly lessons from Fukushima changed Japan and the world." This article covered his discussion of Japan's nuclear disaster in a recent event at HKS with Arnold Howitt (co-director, Program on Crisis Leadership, HKS) “Dry Run for War: How Fukushima Changed Japan and Its Place in the World, hosted by the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

Former assistant Asia editor and Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times, Fackler was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for exposing a government cover-up during the Fukushima disaster. He will join the Reischauer Institute as a Visiting Fellow for the 2023-24 academic year.

The full article can be read here.