Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery After Japan's 3/11

ISBN-13: 9780415698559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str.

Jeff Kingston

Opis

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, it was compounded by a nuclear meltdown. This enormous tragedy, claiming some 24,000 lives, and displacing more than 500,000 people initially, exceeds the disaster preparedness of Japan.

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).