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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 599–608.
Published: 01 August 2020
... 2011 Triple Disaster parcel delivery tourism Abenomics cultural diplomacy national disaster recovery On March 24, 2020, Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, the Tokyo Olympic Organising Committee, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) agreed to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympics for one year...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1093–1095.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in the aftermath of the 2011 Triple Disaster. “Mobilizing Paradise: Hawai‘i in Post-Disaster National Imagination” is perhaps the most unexpected and intriguing chapter. Here, Koikari disrupts depoliticized ties between the marginalized people of the Tōhoku region and indigenous Hawaiians, critiquing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 485–487.
Published: 01 August 2023
... and the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by members of Aum Shinrikyō, and of the March 11, 2011, “triple disaster”—the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Mullins argues that the social crises that follow these events led to an atmosphere in which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1090–1092.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and harassment—is relatively brief. Similarly, while Watanabe concludes with a rumination of the sense of precarity that followed the 2011 Triple Disaster, much of her ethnography has a feeling of timelessness. I found myself wishing for an engagement with this question of time, to understand how the period...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 213–216.
Published: 01 February 2022
..., Fukushima Fiction explores literary responses to the triple disasters of the earthquake, tsunami, and the meltdowns at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011, now dubbed 3/11. Rachel DiNitto draws on her wide-ranging reading in Japanese fiction and commentary, disaster literature from Japan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Ben Whaley Abstract This article analyzes the first video game in the Zettai Zetsumei Toshi (2002, Disaster Report) series for Sony's PlayStation 2 console against the backdrop of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. In the game, players must use limited resources to escape from an earthquake...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 763–782.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of these and other disasters, and celebrate and support the efforts by survivors to rebuild their lives, their communities, and their societies. The triple disasters—formally known as the “Higashi Nihon Daishinsai” (the Great Eastern Japan Disasters)—on a day now and forever known in Japanese as san-ichi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1025–1027.
Published: 01 November 2020
...” or comfort ( anshin ) is central to his analysis. The gap could not be reconciled by scientific data. One would also have liked a fuller account of citizens’ relationship to the state and the foundations of the “mistrust” that Sternsdorff-Cisterna describes. The Triple Disaster highlighted the dangers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 857–871.
Published: 01 November 2012
... away from it. Something about it felt wrong to me, but I could not quite put my finger on what bothered me. When I did fieldwork in a citizens' movement against a nuclear power plant, in 1999, long before the triple disasters of 3–11, I had several times heard one of the group's leaders, Baba-san...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 488–492.
Published: 01 May 2020
... Graf about Buddhism in Tōhoku after 3/11. Were Buddhist institutions able to provide help without imposing nationalist or neoliberal agendas? Graf documents successful visits by priests of all Buddhist denominations to the 170,000 people living in temporary housing after the triple disasters. Drawing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 401–407.
Published: 01 May 2017
... by “natural” disasters in 2011 (Islam and Lim 2015 ). In 2013 alone, over nineteen million people in Asia were displaced by weather-related disasters, representing the majority of the world's affected population (Singer and Price 2016 ). As with Hudson, most of this work argues that understanding...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 787–789.
Published: 01 August 2020
... postwar urbanization and the intellectual debate concerned with it. The final chapter, in turn, seeks to extend the ideas developed in the book to the contemporary moment, which Prichard characterizes through a problematization of landscape and vision in photography since the Tōhoku Triple Disaster...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 319–331.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Yoshimi Shun'ya; Shi-Lin Loh Abstract With the earthquake of March 11, 2011, and the expanding nuclear disaster that followed, our “affluent postwar” has finally reached a decisive end. Indeed, this closure had been clearly augured since the 1990s. The collapse of the bubble economy, the close...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 945–952.
Published: 01 November 2018
... disaster (1986), or the 3/11 Fukushima triple disaster (2011). Both articles help us to remember Nancy's irrepressibly lively and deeply compassionate spirit, as a grounded intellectual, creative force, and rigorous academic. It was the rare combination of her personal and intellectual gifts—and her...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 257–284.
Published: 01 May 2019
... was Visiting Professor, 2012–17, and support for UW-SCU faculty and student participants through the Sichuan University Immersion Program. References Abramson Daniel , and Yu Qi . 2011 . “ ‘Urban-Rural Integration’ in the Earthquake Zone: Sichuan's Post-Disaster Reconstruction...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (4): 977–999.
Published: 01 November 2015
... about welfare throughout Asia. For comparing the present in China with the past, I then go on to fit findings from studies of different periods in Chinese history into this triple mold. Finally, I address the central object of my inquiry, the dibao scheme and its novelty, noting its transformations...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1104–1112.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as this period is better known for the rise of an increasingly vocal revisionist right. Yet the period since, above all since the triple disaster of 2011, appears to be witnessing a reverse swing of the pendulum, at least so far as the voices of officialdom and the mass media are concerned. From a critical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (1): 115–139.
Published: 01 February 2013
...” in order to win popular support for nuclear plant construction (Aldrich and Dusinberre 2011 ). In the aftermath of the recent Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese are once again questioning the state's strong commitment to nuclear energy since the 1950s, as well as the energy industry's longtime promise...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 845–864.
Published: 01 November 2021
... as an iconic beloved cover song for political and emotional purposes, as in the following examples: (1) “Playing for Change” in 2010; 7 (2) Japan's “Sing Out,” sung as a medley with the Bob Marley and the Wailers’ 1965 reggae song “One Love” in 2011, a tribute to Japan's solidarity following the Triple...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 275–301.
Published: 01 May 2020
... volume almost quadrupled in three years, and the number of unique authors tripled within the same period. The dramatic shift was partly caused by the influx of mainland Chinese writers, who began to arrive in 1949. One has to keep in mind, however, that only 330 writers from the period of 1945–48...
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