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The Politics of Time: The Sewŏl Ferry Disaster and the Disaster of Democracy
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 131–144.
Published: 01 February 2022
... are not so much binaries, or oppositions, as hieroglyphic signs of the democratic unconscious and its excesses that contest the temporalizations of the capitalist present. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 capitalism democracy disaster life politics social movement...
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3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 552–554.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Patricia L. Maclachlan Needless to say, 3.11 is not the first major academic treatment of the triple disasters and their aftermath; to the contrary, much ink had already been spilled on the subject before this volume was published. Nor, for that matter, will it be the last word on the subject...
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From “Nourish the People” to “Sacrifice for the Nation”: Changing Responses to Disaster in Late Imperial and Modern China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 447–469.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Kathryn Jean Edgerton-Tarpley Abstract This article seeks to spark a conversation about shifting conceptualizations of disaster under modernizing states. It employs case studies of two major disasters, the North China Famine of 1876–79 and the Yellow River flood of 1938–47, to map changes...
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The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 836–839.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Mark Jones The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan . By J. Charles Schencking . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . xxii, 374 pp. ISBN: 9780231162180 (cloth; also available as e-book). Imaging Disaster: Tokyo...
View articletitled, The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan Imaging <span class="search-highlight">Disaster</span>: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923
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The Ongoing Disaster
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 345–359.
Published: 01 May 2012
... media revolution is global—the 2011 Arab Spring is a powerful example—yet a critical component of modern Japanese history lies at the heart of the Tweeting and protest that surround the Fukushima disaster: the hibaku phenomenon. The term itself, as many will know, translates as “exposed to radiation...
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Theorizing Post-disaster Literature in Japan: Revisiting the Literary and Cultural Landscape after the Triple Disasters
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Journal of Asian Studies 11591399.
Published: 26 March 2025
...Alex Bates [email protected] Theorizing Post-disaster Literature in Japan: Revisiting the Literary and Cultural Landscape after the Triple Disasters . By Saeko Kimura , translated by Rachel DiNitto and Doug Slaymaker . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2022 . xlix, 160 pp...
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India's Industrial Cities: Essays in Economy and Demography Power, Poverty and Poison: Disaster and Response in an Indian City
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1291–1293.
Published: 01 November 1994
...Mridula Udayagiri India's Industrial Cities: Essays in Economy and Demography . By Nigel Crook . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1993 . vi, 181 pp. $21.00. Power, Poverty and Poison: Disaster and Response in an Indian City . By James Manor . New Delhi : Sage Publications...
View articletitled, India's Industrial Cities: Essays in Economy and Demography Power, Poverty and Poison: <span class="search-highlight">Disaster</span> and Response in an Indian City
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 370–371.
Published: 01 February 1985
...Ramon H. Myers Kuang-hsü ch'u-nien (1876–1879) Hua-Pei ti ta-kan-tsai. [The Great Drought Disaster in North China, 1876–1879] . By Ho Hon-wai . Hong Kong : Chinese University Press , n.d. 164 pp. N.p. Ching-Han t'ieh-lu ch'u-ch'i shih-lioh. [A Brief History of the Early Years...
View articletitled, Kuang-hsü ch'u-nien (1876–1879) Hua-Pei ti ta-kan-tsai. [The Great Drought <span class="search-highlight">Disaster</span> in North China, 1876–1879] Ching-Han t'ieh-lu ch'u-ch'i shih-lioh. [A Brief History of the Early Years of the Peking-Hankow Railroad]
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Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle of Savo Island
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (2): 430–431.
Published: 01 May 1993
...John B. Lundstrom Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle of Savo Island . By Denis and Peggy Warner , with Sadao Seno. Annapolis : Naval Institute Press , 1992 . 298 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 430 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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The Golden Wave: Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka's Tsunami Disaster
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 508–509.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Neena Mahadev The Golden Wave: Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka's Tsunami Disaster . By Michele Ruth Gamburd . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2014 . 234 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 2015 Michele R...
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Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 213–216.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Jan Bardsley Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster . By Rachel DiNitto . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2019 . ix, 240 pp. ISBN: 9780824877972 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 A landmark study...
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Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1093–1095.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Michele M. Mason Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan . By Mire Koikari . London : Bloomsbury , 2020 . xii, 196 pp. ISBN: 9781350122512 (cloth, also available as paper and e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Gender , Culture...
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An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 709–710.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Aniruddha Bose An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 . By Benjamin Kingsbury . New York : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xvi, 210 pp. ISBN: 9780190876098 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019 2019 In An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal...
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Virtual Earthquakes and Real-World Survival in Japan's Disaster Report Video Game
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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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Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 3. Map of Sichuan disaster areas (Sichuan Sheng 1937 ). Unshaded areas experienced no disaster.
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Convoy of fire trucks entering the disaster zone, March 16, 2011. Photograp...
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Published: 01 November 2013
Figure 5. Convoy of fire trucks entering the disaster zone, March 16, 2011. Photograph by US Navy photographer, Specialist 3rd Class Dylan McCord, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/2011TsunamiFireVehicles.jpg , in public domain.
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Skeleton of the Disaster Preparedness Building in Minami Sanriku-chō; impro...
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Published: 01 November 2013
Figure 9. Skeleton of the Disaster Preparedness Building in Minami Sanriku-chō; impromptu altar in front of the building; close-up of altar, including personal effects found in the rubble; January 2012. Photographs by the author.
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 488–492.
Published: 01 May 2020
... popular support for an expanded role for the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) still eludes him. Operation Tomodachi brought the SDF into large-scale bilateral collaboration with the US military to provide disaster relief after 3/11. Defense policy planners and US-Japan alliance managers hoped it would produce...
View articletitled, Co-opted <span class="search-highlight">Disasters</span>: Japan's Rightward Shift and a Scholarship of Counter-Engagement - Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima and <span class="search-highlight">Disasters</span> and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: Political, Religious and Sociocultural Responses
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Disasters, Natural and Unnatural: Reflections on March 11, 2011, and Its Aftermath – CORRIGENDUM
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1169.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Kikaku Co., Ltd. The author regrets the omission. Reference Bestor Theodore C. 2013 . Disasters, Natural and Unnatural: Reflections on March 11, 2011, and Its Aftermath . Journal of Asian Studies 72 ( 4 ): 763 – 782 . ...
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Disasters, Natural and Unnatural: Reflections on March 11, 2011, and Its Aftermath
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 763–782.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Figure 5. Convoy of fire trucks entering the disaster zone, March 16, 2011. Photograph by US Navy photographer, Specialist 3rd Class Dylan McCord, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/2011TsunamiFireVehicles.jpg , in public domain. ...
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