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Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading experts on Japanese religion, anthropology, history, literature and music presents new research and thinking on the long and complex relationship between culture and disaster in Japan, one of the most “disaster-prone” countries in the world. Focusing first on responses to the triple disasters of March 2011, the book then puts the topic in a wider historical context by looking at responses to earlier disasters, both natural and man-made, including the great quakes of 1995 and 1923 and the atomic bombings of 1945. This wide-ranging “double structure” enables an in-depth understanding of the complexities of the issues involved that goes well beyond the clichés and the headlines.

J5500.90 --- J5509 --- J5500.80 --- J7400 --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- geology --- Japan: Science and technology -- geology --- Disasters --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011. --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011. --- Typhoons --- Floods --- Atomic bomb --- Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923. --- Disasters in literature. --- Japanese literature --- Calamities --- Catastrophes --- Curiosities and wonders --- Accidents --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Great Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Great Tokyo Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Tokyo Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Earthquakes --- A-bomb --- Atom bomb --- Bombs --- Nuclear weapons --- Flooding --- Inundations --- Natural disasters --- Water --- Cyclones --- Fukushima I Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima II Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Accident, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Daini Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Japan, 2011 --- Nuclear power plants --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 --- Great East Japan Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Great East Japan Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Great Tohoku Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Northeast Region Pacific Ocean Offshore Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Pacific Offshore Tohoku Region Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Tsunamis --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Social aspects --- History. --- History --- Religious aspects --- History and criticism.