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2022 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
20. What Is Our Study of Risk for? The Case of the Japanese “Go To Campaign”
Author : Kami SEO
Published in: Theory and History in Regional Perspective
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
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Abstract
As a research field, risk analysis does not have a long history. However, its theoretical advances have been remarkable, and many lessons have been learned. It has made great contributions to such fields as chemical regulation and food safety. Although it is only at the beginning of addressing complex, uncertain systemic risks, risk analysis can provide some tools for those difficult risks including transparency in decision making and risk communication. In Japan, however, these tools and knowledge are not fully utilized. Japanese risk scientists are needed to think more actively about “implementation science.” This paper presents lessons learned from “lessons not learned” by the Japanese government, using a case of the travel subsidy program aimed at boosting the economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.