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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 131–144.
Published: 01 February 2022
... one-and-a-half-year term and three months preparing a report had been completed—in other words, without taking into account its delayed takeoff. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 capitalism democracy disaster life politics social movement time and history...
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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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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1093–1095.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Michele M. Mason In this short review, I am unable to do justice to the plethora of curious, fascinating, and disturbing details that Koikari provides in her cogent and enlightening study. Gender , Culture , and Disaster in Post-3 . 11 Japan is infinitely readable without compromising...
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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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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (2): 552–554.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Patricia L. Maclachlan 3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan . By Richard J. Samuels . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2013 . xv, 274 pp. $29.95/£18.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014 2014 For the citizens and scholars of Japan, “3.11...
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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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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...
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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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in Disasters, Natural and Unnatural: Reflections on March 11, 2011, and Its Aftermath
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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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in Disasters, Natural and Unnatural: Reflections on March 11, 2011, and Its Aftermath
> Journal of Asian Studies
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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Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 3. Map of Sichuan disaster areas (Sichuan Sheng 1937 ). Unshaded areas experienced no disaster.
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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 (2012) 71 (2): 345–359.
Published: 01 May 2012
... to painful loss and insecurity, those dislocated by March 11's disasters quickly began to face the challenges of being used politically, especially at the national level. Five days after the disasters struck, Emperor Akihito named the moment “the Great East Japan Earthquake,” designating its collectivization...
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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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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 836–839.
Published: 01 August 2016
... of 1923—through different methodological approaches. Both scholars chart chronologically the unfolding of the calamity and its aftermath. They both interpret the earthquake as a natural disaster that generated social, cultural, and political aftershocks, but they draw different conclusions regarding...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 370–371.
Published: 01 February 1985
... [The Great Drought Disaster in North China, 1876-1879]. By H o 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 of the Peking-Hankow Railroad]. By H o HON-WAI. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1979. 231 pp. N.p. Ho...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 488–492.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Margherita Long Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima . By Aya Hirata Kimura . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2016 . 224 pp. ISBN: 9780822361824 (cloth). Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan...
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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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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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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 409–421.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Bridget Hanna Abstract Asia as a region bears the brunt of both natural and industrial disasters, and when these catastrophes occur, the consequences are disproportionately deadly. Between 1970 and 2011, 74.6 percent of the world's disaster-related fatalities occurred in the Asia-Pacific region...
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