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To better ascertain the needs of East Asian countries adjacent to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, we conducted an analysis of 48 East-Asian websites from the day of accident from March 2011 to September 2012. Subjects included published or broadcast news articles, blogs, and new media outlet such as YouTube videos that were produced in the area. The data are systemically collected by using same searching words, including “Fukushima” in three local languages, such as Chinese, Korean and Japanese. The search method leaded a quasi-random sampling. The chosen websites have replies, which are the unit of analysis in this study. The study set up a typology of classifying patterns in replies, which consists of a two-by-two matrix of publicness vs. privateness and policy narratives vs. policy monopoly. This study aimed to reconcile two different approaches of qualitative and quantitative analyses. This format gave a more affluent implication of the actualization of a typology with respect to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident. The result of chi-square test showed that the response types are statistically dependent on countries where the accident occurred. In detail, the model effect size represented a moderate magnitude (Cramer's V = .321). That is, East Asian countries have different responses on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident according to the typology.