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The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced meltdowns in three reactors. These tragic catastrophes claimed some 20,000 lives, initially displacing some 500,000 people and overwhelming Japan's formidable disaster preparedness.
This book brings together the analysis and insights of a group of distinguished experts on Japan to examine what happened, how various institutions and actors responded and what lessons can be drawn from Japan’s disaster. The contributors, many of whom experienced the disaster first hand, assess the wide-ranging repercussions of this catastrophe and how it is already reshaping Japanese culture, politics, energy policy, and urban planning.
- Sales Rank: #10440624 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Routledge
- Published on: 2012-04-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 6.25" w x .75" l, 1.40 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 328 pages
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Review
'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
About the Author
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).
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
An invaluable Resource
By S.Watanabe
In the still-unfolding aftermath of the Tohoku triple catastrophe, this multi-authored volume provides an invaluable early record of the major issues that have emerged from the crisis. There is a freshness and urgency to the analyses included here. Nearly every piece conveys what editor Kingston describes as "a sense of what it has been like to experience Japan in crisis, a revealing moment and fraught climate that will fade as time passes." Many of the contributors are long-time residents of Japan, with intimate, on-the-ground perspectives of the intricacies of national policy-making and power politics. Though clearly a valuable resource for specialists and policymakers, the collection is informative and interesting reading for members of the general public, like myself, who are concerned with the lessons to be learned from Fukushima which extend far beyond the boundaries of Tohoku, into cities and towns all around the world.
The chapters are organized along a timeline which progresses from the disaster through recovery and reconstruction. Included are cogent and insightful comparisons of pre- and post-3/11 energy and economic policies and the potential for reform, discussions of strategies for urban planning, critiques of emergency preparedness and response, and the impact of civil dissent on the power dynamics of Japan's iron triangle.
As a member of a small town community attempting to transition to a greener energy economy I found the discussions (in "Hard Choices" by Paul Scalise and "Fukushima and the Political Economy of Power Policy" by Andrew De Wit, et al. ) regarding the challenges Japan faces in developing a sustainable energy policy of particular interest.
In "The politics of Disaster, Nuclear Crisis and Recovery," editor Jeff Kingston looks at the infighting among the DPJ and the LDP, and between the government and TEPCO, who used the Tohoku catastrophe and nuclear crisis as opportunities for political maneuvering, rather than focusing on recovery and reconstruction efforts. Having seen something of the same in the federal emergency response to Katrina, and now faced with our own version of political gridlock here in the U.S., there is something chillingly resonant in Kingston's analysis. By giving us access to such in-depth, inside perspectives, the book fills an important gap in our knowledge of the aftermath of 3/11 which, despite its huge global significance--particularly in the areas of energy and economic policy, has all but disappeared from coverage in the mainstream media.
The collection is skillfully arranged to maximize the resonance between chapters and sections. I especially appreciated the strategy of opening the book with two compelling and humane first person narratives by Gerald L. Curtis ("Tohoku Diary") and J.F. Morris ("Recovery in Tohoku"). These articles attach a human face to the catastrophe at Tohoku, from the opening of the collection, a reminder which resonates through every page which follows.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent
By OM
This is an excellent compendium on the 3.11 natural disaster and nuclear crisis. I read the exchange between the reviewer and editor and decided to post my review because AJ Sutton distorts and unfairly slags a fine book. The editor of the book pointed out some major mistakes in the original review and Sutton has now deleted his own embarrassing comments. You can look at the comment thread following the Sutton review.
I am baffled by Sutton's gratuitously negative comments because the chapters are informative, well written and accessible, although Sutton seemed to have trouble comprehending the straightforward analysis and totally misread what the contributors wrote about the prospects for Tohoku's recovery...he wrote that they were optimistic when in fact they are pessimistic. Oops! Such basic errors raise questions about whether he actually read the book before reviewing it and whether he is a credible reviewer. Sutton should also be embarrassed that he complained in his mid-June posting that the contributors failed to explain why the anti-nuclear energy movement was fizzling out ...yes he actually did write that blooper... precisely at a time of massive rallies in Tokyo protesting nuclear energy. Keep this in mind when you read Sutton disparaging the book for not remaining meaningful today...he has got that totally wrong too.
As the editor points out, the contributors' findings about the nuclear village, regulatory capture and the shape of the energy debate have been vindicated by subsequent events.
I liked the combination of chapters that relate personal experiences at the time of the crisis and more analytical chapters on themes ranging from energy and social media to volunteerism and the history of disasters. The Duus chapter on the latter subject is superb. The strength of the volume is that the authors do anticipate subsequent developments and subsequent investigations vindicate their analysis. Experts and those who know little about Japan or disasters will learn a lot from reading this book because it provides the context most readers need to make sense of ongoing developments. I am planning to use this book in an undergraduate course.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Not as current as publication date suggests (3.5 stars)
By A. J. Sutter
The official publication date of this book is roughly 1 year after the quake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown of March 11, but the contributions were written much earlier: no later than July or early August 2011. In other words, the articles were written about 4 months after the disasters, but another 7 or 8 had gone by between writing and publication. As a result, very few authors were able to form a perspective that remains meaningful today. While some essays are still useful as chronicles of events close to the time of the tsunami, most of them, or at least big chunks of most of them, have been superseded by subsequent events, revelations and changes of administration. (All of the essays, other than the editor's, were written while Naoto Kan was prime minister; the editor's seems to have been completed a couple of weeks into the Noda Administration.)
[MODIFICATION, 2012/07/08: In several comments on this page and separate emails, the editor of this book has taken me to task for the original version of this review, on the grounds that it "misinformed" readers about the book's "prescience." (See comments below.) Although I live in both Tokyo and Tohoku, and have visited the areas affected by the tsunami, including both last year and shortly before reading this book, I don't claim to have expertise in the subject matter. On the other hand, I'm not entirely new to it either, and have read some earlier books, articles and reports about 3/11 -- including one from the same editor -- in addition to living through it. I don't write from the perspective of, say, a college student or overseas person who's learning about this for the first time; their reaction to the book might be different. So let me clarify the purpose of this review:
Pace the editor, I don't have any interest to dissuade you, the prospective reader, from buying this book, to which I have given a roughly 4-star review. My point is rather to help you to set your expectations appropriately. To the extent I am uninformed about events in Tohoku, this will be the condition of typical reader, too, unless this book will have only a few readers. "Prescience" won't be obvious to the non-expert reader. Many articles in the book express uncertainty about the future and the possibility of change in Japan, but this sort of prescience was shared throughout the Japanese population in summer 2011, not just among experts. The only way a reader might know the book really is "prescient," to the extent it is, would be to already be quite knowledgeable about the current status of the various topics -- in which case the need to read this book would be reduced.
What *will* be obvious to any reader of the book, though, is that all of the articles speak only of events during the first few months after the tsunami, even though many do so with some authority. This narrow time frame could make most unsuspecting readers in 2012 want to put the book down and look for something more recent. Since there wasn't any review when I read the book, this was exactly my own reaction. I resisted the temptation to set it aside, though in the end I can't say my persistence was richly rewarded -- merely somewhat so, by a few articles.
To the extent some articles in the book remain relevant, that speaks well of the contributors. And perhaps for some future reviewers, more expert than I, "prescience" will be enough. But if your interest is in more current factual information, prescience is not an adequate substitute. And if your interest is in analysis that considers significant pre-publication events, such as Noda's effective reversal of Kan's post-3/11 nuke pronouncements, or the delays in distribution of aid that persisted through the later months of 2011 (and today), your confidence in the book's analysis may be tempered, as mine was. Which is more reliable: an expert's opinion when you know he or she hasn't considered some important facts, or an opinion that you know has been rendered after those facts have been taken into account, even if the conclusion doesn't change? At least for this reviewer, the latter.
You may reasonably be interested to know, then, that the present book adds less than its April 2012 publication date might suggest to the June 2011 e-book from the same editor ("Tsunami: Japan's Post-Fukushima Future"), to other materials from some of the present book's contributors published during 2011 or earlier, and to various expert reports released in English in recent months. But as I stated in the original version of this review:] One can't blame the authors, of course, for this rapid aging of their chapters: the misjudgment seems more to have been on the publisher's side. It might have been better to have made this book available as an e-book last summer or fall, or else extended the deadline for submissions until the first anniversary of the disasters, say, and published as an e-book soon after, with a print version for libraries to follow a bit later.
A couple of contributions would not have been very useful at any time, such as a "content analysis" of Japanese newspaper websites and "international news websites" (in reality, only CNN US and CNN International). The analysis is based on only 3 days close to the disaster (March 17, 24 and 31, 2011). It also omits discussion of the discourses of the news stories in any depth, totally ignores non-English language sources (such as in the French and German press, where coverage was heavily refracted through local nuclear debates), and even ignores the New York Times (whose coverage was a psychodrama of its own). The three background articles about energy, by Daniel Aldrich, Paul Scalise and Andrew DeWit and co-authors, stand up somewhat better than average because of their longer historical perspective, but much of the content was already available from other sources by the same authors. I did find the article by Tokyo-based architect and planner Riccardo Tossani to be quite interesting, both for its description of how the reconstruction project is being pursued, and its attention to Onagawamachi in Miyagi Prefecture -- far and away the scariest place along a couple hundred kilometers of coast that I visited in May 2011. The stand-out, though, is the first-person account by J.F. Morris, a long-term resident of the Miyagi coast who might have died on 3/11 if bad weather hadn't led him to suppress his hankering for some of the wonderful French-style pastries so ubiquitous in this country. In addition to hardship and humor, Morris includes many pertinent observations on being "saved" by NPO volunteers, and on the overlooked heroism of local governments. Overall, this book could be useful if you need to research what people were thinking soon after 3/11, but if you'd like a longer perspective you may find only a few of the 16 chapters satisfying.
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