Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan

Jeff Kingston is Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies at Temple University, Japan. He is the author of Japan's Quiet Transformation (2004) and Contemporary Japan (2011).

• Introduction Jeff Kingston Part 1: Disaster: Reports from Tohoku 1. Tohoku Diary: Reportage on the Tohoku Disaster Gerald Curtis 2. Recovery in Tohoku John F. Morris Part 2: Volunteerism, Civil Society and Media 3. From Kobe to Tohoku: The Potential and the Peril of a Volunteer Infrastructure Simon Avenell 4. Civil Society and the Triple Disasters: Revealed Strengths and Weaknesses Yuko Kawato, Robert Pekkanen and Yutaka Tsujinaka 5. Social Media in Disaster Japan David H. Slater, Nishimura Keiko and Love Kindstrand 6. March 11, 2011 Online: Comparing Japanese Newspaper Websites and International News Websites Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki Part 3: Energy 7. Networks of Power: Institutions and Local Residents in Post-Tohoku Japan Daniel P. Aldrich 8. Hard Choices: Japan's Post-Fukushima Energy Policy in the 21st Century Paul J. Scalise 9. Fukushima and the Political Economy of Power Policy in Japan Andrew Dewitt, Iida Tetsunari and Masuru Kaneko Part 4: History and Politics 10. Dealing With Disaster Peter Duus 11. The Politics of Natural Disaster, Nuclear Crisis and Recovery Jeff Kingston 12. Friends in Need: 'Operation Tomodachi' and the Politics of US Military Disaster Relief in Japan Chris Ames and Yuiko Koguchi-Ames Part 4: Recovery and Reconstruction 13. The Economic Fallout: Japan's Post-3/11 Challenges, Kenneth Neil Cukier 14. Ageing Society, Health Issues and Disaster: Assessing 3/11, Junko Otani 15. Thousand-Year Event: Towards Reconstructing Communities Riccardo Tossani 16. Can Post-3/11 Japan overcome 20 years of drift? Kazuhiko Togo

'The triple disasters of 11 March 2011 will change the face of Japan and this is the best place to understand how. This timely and excellent publication is packed with important insights into the consequences of these disasters and challenges mainstream media views and misperceptions concerning PM Kan’s disaster management.' - Sven Saaler, Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan"One of the most impressive and memorable features of the book edited by Kingston is its tone of immediacy: the various contributors draw on many years of scholarly insight and experience to describe events and scenarios in a style of narrative that aspires beyond common journalistic analysis." – Keith Jackson, SOAS, University of London