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Japan after 3/11 : Global Perspectives on the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Meltdown /
On March 11, 2011, an underwater earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan, triggered one of the most devastating tsunamis of a generation. The aftermath was overwhelming: communities were reduced to rubble, thousands of people were missing or dead, and relief organizations struggled to reac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Asia in the new millennium.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Preface
- Remarks by the Honorable Itsunori Onodera, member of the Japanese House of Representatives from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture
- Introduction. After the triple disaster : landscape of devastation, despair, hope, and resilience / Pradyumna P. Karan
- part 1. Earthquake and tsunami damage
- 1. Historical geography of the Japanese tsunami / Unryu Suganuma
- 2. Facing the 3/11 waves / Junko Oikawa
- 3. Tsunamis and earthquakes in Japanese literature / Yukiko Dejima
- 4. Tsunami flow and geo-environment of the Pacific coastal region of Tohoku / Masatomo Umitsu
- 5. Tsunami damage and the road to recovery in Onagawa town / Takehiko Takano
- 6. Earthquake and tsunami in Taro town / H. Todd Stradford
- 7. The cases of two tsunami storytellers who experienced tsunami disasters twice in their lifetimes / Tomoko Yamazaki
- 8. Agricultural damage in the Sendai Plain and the road to recovery / Ryohei Sekine
- Part 2. Nuclear radiation crisis : living with radiation
- 9. Ramifications of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster : toward the end of the "peaceful atom"? / Jonathan Taylor
- 10. TEP CO and nuclear energy politics : an analysis of the "Japanese Pentagon" / Unryu Suganuma
- 11. Characteristics of the evacuation area and the spatial distribution of radioactive pollution in Fukushima Prefecture / Toshio Hatsuzawa and Takehiko Takano
- 12. The social structures of victimization of Fukushima residents due to radioactive contamination from the 2011 Nuclear Disaster / Yukio Yotsumoto and Shunichi Takekawa
- 13. Internet-age parents and children after the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami / Yukiko Dejima and Wakako Ikeda-Ohtsubo
- 14. Crisis mapping project and counter-mapping by neo-geographers / Toshikazu Seto and Yuichiro Nishimura
- Part 3. Impact of the earthquake and tsunami on business and industry
- 15. The impact of the 2011 Tsunami and Earthquake on distribution systems in the Tohoku Region / Jun Tsuchiya
- 16. The impact of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear radiation on the manufacturing industry in the Tohoku Region / Masateru Hino
- Part 4. Socioeconomic dimensions of response, recovery, and reconstruction : the rebuilding dilemma
- 17. Disaster prevention culture : role of schools in saving tsunami victims / Kenji Yamazaki
- 18. The role of volunteering in post-tsunami town recovery : the experience of All Hands in Ofunato City, Iwate / James M. Hall and Moto Suzuki
- 19. Distribution of non-Japanese Residents and support activities for them in the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster-stricken areas / Kohei Okamoto and Kumi Sato
- 20. Coordinating policy toward fiscal preparedness for natural disasters : a post-2011 Earthquake and Tsunami perspective / Yilin Hou and Unryu Suganuma
- Part 5. Comparative responses to the disaster : Japan, China, India, and New Zealand
- 21. Experiencing disasters in two places : China's 1976 Tangshan Earthquake and Japan's 2011 Earthquake, Tsunami, and nuclear radiation / Lisa Yinghong Li
- 22. Liquefaction in the 2011 Earthquake in Japan and the Christchurch, New Zealand, earthquake : responses and challenges to reconstruction / Christine Mary Wilby
- 23. Tamil Nadu and Tohoku : the two tsunamis / Pradyumna P. Karan.