With apologies for cross-posting
TOHOKU DISASTER BOOK BREAK AT THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS' CLUB OF JAPAN IN TOKYO, 31 JAN 2014

>From Tom Gill, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji
Gakuin University

Dear friends,

It has been nearly three years since 3.11, but as anyone following the news will know, the Great Tohoku Disasters are very far from over.
The book "Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011," which I co-edited with Brigitte Steger and David Slater, published by Peter Lang, will get its formal Japan launch at an event in Tokyo on Friday January 31.
The venue is the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan and the event kicks off at 6.15pm, ending 8.30pm. There will be short presentations by five of the chapter authors - David Slater, Yoko Ikeda, Nathan Peterson, David McNeill and myself. There will also be cocktails and dinner. It costs 2,000 yen to attend, and unless you are a member of the FCCJ, you will need to be signed in by myself. So if you are interested in attending, please write to me at tpgill(at)yahoo.com.
Places are limited; I can't promise to get everybody in, but will do my best.
If you have never been to the FCCJ, it is well worth a visit, not least for the panoramic view of Tokyo you get from its nest on the top floor of the Yurakucho Denki Building. Copies of the book will be on sale at a 30% discount (4,500 yen; currently 7,000 yen on Amazon) and you can get them signed by half the authors if you wish.
The deadline for registering is a week in advance - Friday, January 24, i.e. this Friday. Places cancelled less than 24 hours before the event will have to be paid for. by me... so please, please avoid doing that.
This should be a very lively event, I do believe. Check out the details here:

Event site at FCCJ:
http://www.fccj.or.jp/events-calendar/calendar/icalrepe
at.detail/2014/01/31/585/-/book-break-japan-copes-with-
calamity-ethnographies-of-the-earthquake-tsunami-and-nu
clear-disasters-of-march-2011-ed-by-tom-gill-brigitte-s
teger-david-.html

Publication data: http://www.peterlang.com?430922.
Amazon Japan:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Japan-Copes-With-Calamity-Ethno
graphies/dp/3034309228/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=139032356
9&sr=8-2&keywords=japan+copes

Japan Copes with Calamity: Contents

* Tom Gill/Brigitte Steger/David H. Slater: 'The 3.11 Disasters'
* David H. Slater: 'Urgent Ethnography'
* Brigitte Steger: 'Solidarity and Distinction through Practices of Cleanliness in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture'
* Nathan J. Peterson: 'Adapting Religious Practice in Response to Disaster in Iwate Prefecture'
* Johannes Wilhelm and Alyne Delaney: 'No Homes, No Boats, No Rafts: Miyagi Coastal People in the Aftermath of Disaster'
* David McNeill: 'Them versus Us: Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis'
* Ikeda Yoko: 'The Construction of Risk and the Resilience of Fukushima in the Aftermath of the Nuclear Power Plant Accident'
* Morioka Rika: 'Mother Courage: Women as Activists between a Passive Populace and a Paralyzed Government'
* Tom Gill: 'This Spoiled Soil: Place, People and Community in an Irradiated Village in Fukushima Prefecture'
* Tuukka Toivonen: 'Youth for 3.11 and the Challenge of Dispatching Young Urban Volunteers to North-eastern Japan'
* David H. Slater: 'Moralities of Volunteer Aid: The Permutations of Gifts and their Reciprocals.'
* Brigitte Steger: Epilogue: 'Still Missing.'

A Japanese edition of the book, Higashi-Nihon Dai-Shinsai no Jinruigaku: Tsunami, genpatsu jiko to hisaishatachi no 'sono go' (Anthropology of the Great Eastern Japan Disaster: The tsunami, the nuclear accident and what happened next to the victims) has also been published, by Jinbun Sho'in of Kyoto.
http://www.jimbunshoin.co.jp/book/b108281.html

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