Please check out our collection on Cultural Anthropology's website. They are short, theoretically informed but accessible posts that we hope are of some interest to those on this list. (We would like to thank Chris Nelson at Cultural Anthropology for his guidance in this update.)

Post-311 Politics in Disaster Japan: Ten Years Later <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/3-11-politics-in-disaster-japan-ten-years-later >
By David H. Slater and Anne Allison

In July 2011, three months after the Tohoku tsunami and subsequent nuclear reactor destabilization, we published the first Hot Spot series on the Society for Cultural Anthropology's website, "3.11 Politics in Disaster Japan: Fear and Anger, Possibility and Hope <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/3-11-politics-in-disaster-japan-fear-and-anger-possibility-and-hope>." Ten years later, we asked the original contributors to reflect on the past decade, in terms of fear and anger, possibility and hope post-3.11.


3.11 Politics in Disaster Japan, Ten Years Later: Introduction <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/3-11-the-politics-emerging-and-dissipating-ten-years-since>

By David H. Slater <https://culanth.org/authors/david-h-slater>

On March 11, 2011, the largest recorded earthquake in Japan's history rocked the country. Within minutes, a tsunami that reached thirty meters in places was hea... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/3-11-the-politics-emerging-and-dissipating-ten-years-since>


Fukushima: Despite Resiliency, Emancipation Denied <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/fukushima-despite-resiliency-emancipation-denied>

By Kyle Cleveland <https://culanth.org/authors/kyle-cleveland>

Pity the arbiters of the Fukushima Grand Narrative. As the crisis phase of the nuclear disaster receded to the point where survivors of the 2011 disasters could... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/fukushima-despite-resiliency-emancipation-denied>


Too Many Crises to Remember <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/too-many-crises-to-remember>

By Yoshitaka Mōri <https://culanth.org/authors/yoshitaka-mori>

Since 2011, the media coverage of the 3.11 disaster has ebbed and become an annual media ritual. Most people seem to be busy in their own business of everyday l... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/too-many-crises-to-remember>


Empire of Bones <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/empire-of-bones>

By Christopher Nelson <https://culanth.org/authors/christopher-nelson>

I stayed up late one night a couple months ago, in March 2021, watching the live broadcasts commemorating the tenth anniversary of the catastrophe in Tohoku. Wh... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/empire-of-bones>


Meaningful Play <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/meaningful-play>

By Sharon Hayashi <https://culanth.org/authors/sharon-hayashi>

Science fiction, rather than science, seems to be dictating reality in the decade after 3.11. The post-apocalyptic eighties manga AKIRA predicted the Olympics w... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/meaningful-play>


Affective Technology in Times of Crisis <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/affective-technology-in-times-of-crisis>

By Keiko Nishimura <https://culanth.org/authors/keiko-nishimura>

Ten years ago, when an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan, one technological object in pa... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/affective-technology-in-times-of-crisis>


History's Repetition <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/historys-repetition>

By Harry Harootunian <https://culanth.org/authors/harry-harootunian>

When the unwelcome collaboration of nature and history furiously swept over and uprooted everything in its way in Fukushima on 3.11, the then mayor of Tokyo exp... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/historys-repetition>


Mapping Diffuse Anxiety <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/mapping-diffuse-anxiety>

By David S. Sprague <https://culanth.org/authors/david-s-sprague>

Mapping continues to reconfirm the criticality of space in the cruel happenstances of human life evidenced by the Triple Disaster that struck Tohoku Japan in 20... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/mapping-diffuse-anxiety>


From Bravado to Radical Interdependence <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/from-bravado-to-radical-interdependence>

By Nozomu Shibuya <https://culanth.org/authors/shibuya-nozomu>

Despite ten years having passed since the Fukushima nuclear accident, we still can't enter the nuclear plants and their surrounding area due to excessively high... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/from-bravado-to-radical-interdependence>


Time and Life in Fukushima <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/time-and-life-in-fukushima>

By Anne Allison <https://culanth.org/authors/anne-allison> and Jieun Cho <https://culanth.org/authors/jieun-cho>

Summer 2015, four years after the disaster, I headed to Fukushima with a friend to see what we could of the region. Having contracted with someone offering to g... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/time-and-life-in-fukushima>


Can You Hear the People Sing? <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/can-you-hear-the-people-sing>

By Love Kindstrand <https://culanth.org/authors/love-kindstrand>

Nine years ago, I joined the choir praising a series of mass gatherings claiming to speak in the name of the people. A weekly antinuclear rally outside the Japa... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/can-you-hear-the-people-sing>


Disaster Continues <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/disaster-continues>

By Sabu Kohso <https://culanth.org/authors/sabu-kohso>

A decade has passed since the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident. While the disaster continues with radio-contamination permeating beyond the border of Japa... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/disaster-continues>

Reterritorialization of the Nuclear Village <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/reterritorialization-of-the-nuclear-village>

By David H. Slater <https://culanth.org/authors/david-h-slater>

The dispersal of radiation did not produce the sort of death or illness that many feared, although the long-term effects of radiation are still largely unknown.... *More* <https://culanth.org/fieldsights/reterritorialization-of-the-nuclear-village>


David H. Slater, Ph.D.
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Graduate Program in Japanese Studies
Sophia University, Tokyo