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April 5, 2012

[SSJ: 7348] Re: research_Great East Japan Earthquake

From: Jeff Kingston
Date: 2012/04/05

Please refer to chapters 5 & 6 in Kingston (ed) Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan (Routledge 2012).
Here is the table of contents.

PART I
Disaster: Reports from Tohoku
1 Tōhoku diary: Reportage on the Tohoku disaster 000 Gerald L. Curtis
2 Recovery in Tohoku
J.F. Morris

PART II
Volunteerism, civil society and media 000
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 Kawato Yuko, Robert Pekkanen and Tsujinaka Yutaka
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 III
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 twenty-first century Paul J. Scalise
9 Fukushima and the political economy of power policy in Japan Andrew DeWit, Iida Tetsunari, and Kaneko Masaru

PART IV
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 Natural Disaster.indb xii 19/12/2011 08:32:00 Contents xiii

PART V
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
Otani Junko
15 Thousand-year event: Towards reconstructing communities Riccardo Tossani
16 Can post-3/11 Japan overcome twenty years of drift?
Togo Kazuhiko

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