An Argumentative Approach to Representations of Fukushima: A Case Study of the Legacy Media Coverage over the Russian Invasion in Ukraine

Abstract

This paper examines how the Fukushima nuclear accident provided the basis for authorizing the inference in reasoning of the German and Japanese climate policies in the New York Times coverage over conflicts between Russia and Ukraine. It also focuses on the ways in which not the a-bombed cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the nuclear disaster, Fukushima, was used for demonstrating what was actually happening at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in the metaphorical framework.