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...Olga V. Solovieva This essay discusses Svetlana Alexievich’s book Voices from Chernobyl as a complicated figuration of the Russian and Soviet literary traditions. A comparison is drawn with the Japanese documentary Little Voices from Fukushima (2015) by the antinuclear activist Hitomi Kamanaka...

...Harry Harootunian In this essay, I propose that the forced convergence of history and memory in Fukushima resulted in singularizing expressions of experience and memory, thus inducing survivors to focus on the immediate context of the everyday itself rather than the nation and national history...

...Sabu Kohso This essay is an attempt to understand what has been happening after Fukushima 3/11 in Japan, in terms of capital's accumulation and sociopolitical formation, from the vantage point of global anticapitalist struggles. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 radiation antinuclear...

... of the idea of the human, the concept that fundamentally characterizes present civilizations. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Miki Kiyoshi human Umwelt Karatani Kōjin world history Crisis and World Temporality: The Post-­Fukushima Binary of the Everyday...

... movement and a lack of confidence in representative democracy, the burden to address citizens' concerns has shifted to social movements. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 postwar Japanese politics politics of memories civil movements Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Tōhoku earthquake...

... and the implications for a restructuring of life now playing out in Japan. The focus is especially on a quality not always associated with globalization: stillness, both as an element of contemporary crisis, and of the possible life to come. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 eco-city energy Fukushima...

..., and they determine meaning, not vice versa. Many of these processes are evident in Solovieva's essay, “Voicing the Nuclear, Resisting the State in Kamanaka Hitomi's Fukushima and Svetlana Alexievich's Chernobyl” (chapter 13). Initially I was surprised by an essay on nuclear disasters; it didn't fit in my notion...

... , eds. 2002 . Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Muto Ichiyo . 2013 . “ The Buildup of a Nuclear Armament Capability and the Postwar Statehood of Japan: Fukushima and the Genealogy of Nuclear Bombs and Power Plants .” Inter-Asia Cultural...

... the Fukushima nuclear disaster, he coedited the website jfissures.org and has written several articles in English on the problematic of postnuclear-­disaster society, which can be found at th-rough.eu/writers/sabu-­ ­kohso and www.borderlands.net.au/vol11no2 _2012/kohso_radiation.htm. Thomas Lamarre...

... would try to convert us. But there is a very long, complex story to be written about Aum, its connections to Ishihara [Shintar ō ], Tokyo politics and his role in the Tokyo Olympics, et cetera. And the other thing, of course, is Fukushima [the nuclear meltdown in 2011], the Jimintō [Liberal Democratic...

..., of Fukushima nuclear disas- boundary 2 42:3 (2015) DOI 10.1215/01903659-­2919576 © 2015 by Duke University Press 186 boundary 2 / August 2015 became one of the most widely discussed murder cases in contemporary Japanese history.3 At first, male-­oriented tabloids and weekly magazines were abuzz...

... technologies can be and are indeed globalized, alongside a particular morality. We are, of course, not so happy that this globalization is so all-invading.­ One can easily see the connections between the destruction of the writing system of the Otto- mans, the atomic destruction in Fukushima...

...- ciated with deliberate acts rather than with processes. There are borderline cases involving “natural” catastrophes, such as the tsunami that provoked the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, but here too “intentions” and “acts”— such as inadequate planning, for instance, or subterfuge in the nondissemi...

... of communicating the disaster instantaneously. As a result, it is possible to understand such diverse events as Hurricane Katrina, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the war on terror, and the economic crisis of 2008, to name only a few examples, under the metaphorical banner...

... no kuroi kiri , Matsumoto suggested that the train derailment was orchestrated by American Counter Intelligence Corps officers based in Fukushima in order to turn public sentiment against the JCP and communist trade unionists (Matsumoto [1960–61] 2004 , 2:185–260). After questioning Matsumoto's theory...