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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 <span class="search-highlight">Earthquake</span> and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great <span class="search-highlight">Earthquake</span> of 1923
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 846–847.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Martin Dusinberre Seismic Japan: The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo Earthquake . By Gregory Smits . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . x, 262 pp. ISBN: 9780824838171 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 753–773.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Janet Hunter Abstract Contemporary concerns about the difficulties faced by the Japanese economy following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923 soon appeared to be unfounded as the economy recovered relatively quickly. This paper suggests that despite its limited impact on Japan's longer-term...
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View articletitled, “Extreme Confusion and Disorder”? The Japanese Economy in the Great Kantō <span class="search-highlight">Earthquake</span> of 1923
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1000–1001.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Gina Anne Tam Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake . By Christian P. Sorace . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2017 . 248 pp. ISBN: 9781501707537 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Christian P...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 503–505.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Luciana Sanga The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post-3/11 Japan . By Koichi Haga . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2019 . 129 pp. ISBN: 9781498569033 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 In the first English...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 742–744.
Published: 01 August 2021
...L. Halliday Piel In chapter 6, “Wake Up, Japan! Know Yourself and Know Your Enemy,” Borland draws on Gregory Clancey's framework regarding the political impact of earthquakes. 5 Leaders in education saw mass hysteria, rather than the earthquake itself, as the root cause of suffering...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (3): 549–576.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Michael Hutt Abstract On April 25, 2015, central Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed over 9,000 people and displaced 2.8 million. The image of the Dharahara, a nineteenth-century minaret that collapsed during the quake, quickly became for many Nepalis an iconic representation...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 522–524.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Christian Sorace The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China . By Bin Xu . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2017 . xiii, 256 pp. ISBN: 9781503602106 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association...
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in Virtual Earthquakes and Real-World Survival in Japan's Disaster Report Video Game
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2019
Figure 2. Masayuki mimics the real-world earthquake preparedness drill of “drop, cover, and hold on” amidst citywide destruction. © Granzella Inc.
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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 1. Japan atop a catfish: poster from “The Earthquake Exhibition” at the National Museum of Science, Tokyo, 2003. Used by permission.
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 230–232.
Published: 01 February 2017
...Alex Bates When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan . By Gregory Smits . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2014 . xv, 209 pp. ISBN: 9781442220096 (cloth, also available as e-book). Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should...
View articletitled, When the Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of <span class="search-highlight">Earthquakes</span> in Japan Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should Respond
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 February 2019
...Figure 2. Masayuki mimics the real-world earthquake preparedness drill of “drop, cover, and hold on” amidst citywide destruction. © Granzella Inc. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 333–344.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Gregory Clancey Abstract Almost every destructive earthquake opens social and political fault lines as well as natural ones, and those of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011 are notable only for their local depth and global circulation. Seismicity is a geographically selective concern...
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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 (2012) 71 (2): 313–318.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Jordan Sand Abstract One year has passed since the earthquake and tsunami in Tōhoku. How should we as scholars approach, think about, and teach about the disaster? In generations hence, will 2011 be treated as a historical turning point on a par with 1945? Will it appear more significant than...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1005–1007.
Published: 01 November 2014
...” disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis are strikingly devastating, it is the destruction of environments from anthropogenic sources that are often the most frustrating. That is, we believe that because human beings caused the problems, we should be able to fix them, and, indeed, as humanists...
View articletitled, Whither Southeast Asia in the Anthropocene?: Comments on the papers from the 2014 roundtable “JAS at AAS: Asian Studies and Human Engagement with the Environment.”
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (1): 25–45.
Published: 01 February 2017
..., trauma healing programs aimed at the young after the 2006 earthquake, new preschools and playgroups in the era of democratization, and the proliferation of international curricula and pedagogy illustrate how the restless contingency associated with global assemblages is rooted in durable forms...
View articletitled, “Anything Can Be Used to Stimulate Child Development”: Early Childhood Education and Development in Indonesia as a Durable Assemblage
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (2): 345–359.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Alexis Dudden Abstract On March 15, 2011, late at night at the Osaka train station, I met the first refugees from the earthquake that I would come to know. The family of four did not look like what I thought that people who were fleeing the horrendous images on television would. The mother, father...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (2): 347–357.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Pranab Bardhan Abstract The world's two most populous countries each made international headlines in 2008, thanks to the Sichuan earthquake and Beijing Olympics, the Mumbai terror attacks, and reports of how the global financial crisis affected the Chinese and Indian economies. However, China...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 857–871.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Robin M. LeBlanc Abstract About the time of the one-year anniversary of the March 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a conversation about the politics of nuclear power started up among Japanologists, mostly political scientists, on a listserv I read daily. The original discussion emerged from...
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