일본의 원자력발전소를 둘러싼 문학적 상상력과 대응 ‒1980년대 원자력발전소 관련 작품을 중심으로‒

Abstract

Even before the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, ‘Literature of Nuclear Power Plant’ was created in various forms that depicted nuclear power plant radiation leaks and various problems in nuclear power plants. In particular, the literature related to nuclear power considered in this paper described that various types of radioactive leaks existed after the nuclear power plant was built.In addition, in these literary works, it is vividly depicted that the officials of the nuclear power plant are actively trying to conceal this accident and avoid responsibility for it through public relations and public opinion management. Moreover, modern Japanese novelists tried to highlight the dangers of nuclear power plants by imagining the accident of a nuclear power plant in connection with the atomic bombing and atomic bombing problems of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which are problems of the same atomic nucleus. The reason why these modern Japanese novelists created works related to nuclear power was to indict this danger and present it to readers. Nevertheless, those who wanted to keep the nuclear power plant recognized that the nuclear power plant was a “peace of Japan symbol” or that power is a nation. They also sought to suppress those who resisted the nuclear power plant through the ideology of the country’s rebels. This is the reason that Japan, an earthquake-prone country, neglects the potential dangers of nuclear power plants. And Japan did not take advantage of the lessons presented by such literary works, and at the time of 3.11, the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant faced an unprecedented incident of radioactive leakage.