Natural disaster and nuclear crisis in Japan : response and recovery after Japan's 3/11 /

"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 nine earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as 38 meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced meltdowns...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kingston, Jeff, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Tohoku diary: reportage on the Tohoku disaster / Gerald Curtis
  • Recovery in Tohoku / John F. Morris
  • From Kobe to Tohoku: the potential and the peril of a volunteer infrastructure / Simon Avenell
  • Civil society and the triple disasters: revealed strengths and weaknesses / Yuko Kawato, Robert Pekkanen, Yutaka Tsujinaka
  • Social media in disaster Japan / David H. Slater, Nishimura Keiko and Love Kindstrand
  • March 11, 2011 online: comparing Japanese newspaper websites and international news websites / Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki
  • Networks of power: institutions and local residents in post-Tohoku Japan / Daniel P. Aldrich
  • Hard choices: Japan's post-Fukushima energy policy in the 21st century / Paul J. Scalise
  • Fukushima and the political economy of power policy in Japan / Andrew DeWit, Iida Tetsunari, and Kaneko Masaru
  • Dealing with disaster / Peter Duus
  • The politics of natural disaster, nuclear crisis and recovery / Jeff Kingston
  • Friends in need: 'Operation Tomodachi' and the politics of US military disaster relief in Japan / Chris Ames and Yuiko Koguchi-Ames
  • The economic fallout: Japan's post-3/11 challenges / Kenneth Neil Cukier
  • Ageing society, health issues and disaster: assessing 3/11 / Junko Otani
  • Thousand-year event: towards reconstructing communities / Riccardo Tossani
  • Can post-3/11 Japan overcome 20 years of drift? / Kazuhiko Togo.