Japan Copes with Calamity

Gill, Tom [Editor]; Steger, Brigitte [Editor]; Slater, David H. [Editor];

ISBN 10: 1906165513 / ISBN 13: 9781906165512

Published by Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers, 2015

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Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Japan Copes with Calamity
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906165513
• ISBN 13: 9781906165512
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 23 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Asian History

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Synopsis

Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an update on the affected communities, this volume brings together studies by experienced researchers of Japan from field sites around the disaster zone. The contributors present the survivors’ struggles in their own words: from enduring life in shelters and temporary housing, through re-creating the fishing industry, to rebuilding life-ways and relationships bruised by bereavement. They contrast the sudden brutal loss of life from the tsunami with the protracted anxiety about exposure to radiation and study the battle to protect children, family and a way of life from the effects of destruction, displacement and discrimination. The local communities’ encounters with volunteers and journalists who poured into Tohoku after the disaster and the campaign to win compensation from the state and nuclear industry are also explored. This volume offers insights into the social fabric of rural communities in north-eastern Japan and suggests how the human response to disaster may be improved in the future.

About the Author

Tom Gill is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama.
Brigitte Steger is Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Downing College.
David H. Slater is Professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University in Tokyo and Director of the Institute of Comparative Culture there.