Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan

Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11
Herausgeber: Kingston, Jeff

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Produktbeschreibung

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 38 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 Japans formidable disaster preparedness. This book brings together the analysis and insights of a group of distinguished experts on Japan to examine what happened, how various institutions and actors responded and what lessons can be drawn from Japan's disaster. The contributors, many of whom experienced the disaster first hand, assess the wide-ranging repercussions of this catastrophe and how it is already reshaping Japanese culture, politics, energy policy, and urban planning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780415698566
• ISBN-10: 0415698561
• Artikelnr.: 33869667

Autorenporträt

Jeff Kingston is Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan. He is the author of Japan's Quiet Transformation (2004) and Contemporary Japan (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Jeff Kingston Part 1: Disaster: Reports from Tohoku 1. Tohoku
Diary: Reportage on the Tohoku Disaster Gerald Curtis 2. Recovery in Tohoku
John F. Morris Part 2: Volunteerism, Civil Society and Media 3. From Kobe
to Tohoku: The Potential and the Peril of a Volunteer Infrastructure Simon
Avenell 4. Civil Society and the Triple Disasters: Revealed Strengths and
Weaknesses Yuko Kawato, Robert Pekkanen and Yutaka Tsujinaka 5. 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 3: Energy 7.
Networks of Power: Institutions and Local Residents in Post-Tohoku Japan
Daniel P. Aldrich 8. Hard Choices: Japan's Post-Fukushima Energy Policy in
the 21st Century Paul J. Scalise 9. Fukushima and the Political Economy of
Power Policy in Japan Andrew Dewitt, Iida Tetsunari and Masuru Kaneko Part
4: 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 4: 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, Junko Otani 15. Thousand-Year Event: Towards Reconstructing
Communities Riccardo Tossani 16. Can Post-3/11 Japan overcome 20 years of
drift? Kazuhiko Togo