The Contemporary Japan Group at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science (ISS, or Shaken),

welcomes you to a lecture by


Daniel P. Aldrich (Northeastern University)


Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters


DATE AND PLACE

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at Akamon Sōgō Kenkyūtō Room 549, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo


ABSTRACT

Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tōhoku made it through