| Description |
1 online resource (318 pages) |
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Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies |
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Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Series editors' preface; Note to the reader; Map of the Tōhoku region; Map of distribution of nuclear power plants; Introduction: Jeff Kingston; Part I: Disaster: reports from Tōhoku; 1. Tōhoku diary: reportage on the Tōhoku disaster : Gerald L. Curtis; 2. Recovery in Tōhoku: J.F. Morris; Part II: Volunteerism, civil society and media; 3. From Kobe to Tōhoku: the potential and the peril of a volunteer infrastructure: Simon Avenell |
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4. Civil society and the triple disasters: Revealed strengths and weaknesses: Kawato Yūko, Robert Pekkanen and Tsujinaka Yutaka5. Social media in disaster Japan: David H. Slater, Nishimura Keiko, and Love Kindstrand; 6. March 11, 2011 online: comparing Japanese newspaper websites and international news websites: Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki; Part III: Energy; 7. Networks of power: institutions and local residents in post-Tōhoku Japan: Daniel P. Aldrich; 8. Hard choices: Japan's post-Fukushima energy policy in the twenty-first century: Paul J. Scalise |
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9. Fukushima and the political economy of power policy in Japan: Andrew DeWit, Iida Tetsunari, and Kaneko MasaruPart IV: History and politics; 10. Dealing with disaster: Peter Duus; 11. The politics of natural disaster, nuclear crisis and recovery: Jeff Kingston; 12. Friends in need: 'Operation Tomodachi' and the politics of US military disaster relief in Japan: Chris Ames and Yuiko Koguchi-Ames; Part V: Recovery and reconstruction; 13. The economic fallout: Japan's post-3/11 challenges: Kenneth Neil Cukier; 14. Ageing society, health issues and disaster: Assessing 3/11: Ōtani Junko |
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15. Thousand-year event: Towards reconstructing communities: Riccardo Tossani16. Can post-3/11 Japan overcome twenty years of drift?: Tōgo Kazuhiko; Index |
| Summary |
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced meltdowns in three reactors. These tragic catastrophes claimed some 20,000 lives, initially displacing some 500,000 people and overwhelming Japan's formidable disaster preparedness. This book brings together the analysis and insights of a group of distinguished experts on Japan to examine what happened, how |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 -- Accidents -- Japan -- Fukushima-ken
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Nuclear power plants -- Japan.
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Disaster relief -- Japan
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Accidents
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Disaster relief
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Nuclear power plants
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Japan
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Japan -- Fukushima-ken
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Japan -- Tōhoku Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203124109 |
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0203124103 |
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1136343474 |
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9781136343476 |
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