Theories from Interviewees' Narratives: Municipal Officials' Distress After Fukushima

Qualitative interview data from three municipal government officials involved in decontamination efforts after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. The dataset contains coded narratives analyzed to understand subjective distress and create an exploratory conceptual model of its progression. The data was authored by Tomoo Hidaka, last updated in April 2026, and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling the progression of subjective distress based on the four-stage conceptual framework described.
• Analyzing themes of trust breakdown and adversarial orientations toward national government mentioned in the study.
• Investigating the psychological burden of occupying an intermediate position between government and residents.
• Studying the impact of policy inconsistencies and management inadequacies on professional pride and distress.

Strengths

• Data is focused on a specific, documented event (Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident decontamination).
• Includes a detailed qualitative analysis using the Steps for Coding and Theorisation method.
• Shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (21.5 KB), indicating a limited scope based on three interviews.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Tomoo Hidaka.

Collection Method

Narratives collected through interviews with three municipal government officials and subjected to qualitative analysis.

Time Range

Likely pertains to the period following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 17:39:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Fukushima, Japan.