Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies: A Global Synthesis of Shared Experiences

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the People’s Tribunal on Nuclear Power....Pages 3-16
Them versus Us: Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis....Pages 17-34
The Evolution of Disaster Volunteering in Japan: From Kobe to Tohoku....Pages 35-50
Religious Responses to Natural Disasters: From Hurricane Katrina to the Great East Japan Earthquake....Pages 51-66
Chinese Reactions to Disasters in Japan: From the Great Kanto Earthquake to the Great East Japan Earthquake....Pages 67-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Bombs Bursting in Air: State and Citizen Responses to the US Firebombing and Atomic Bombing of Japan....Pages 79-109
Searching Reality in Virtuality: Fantasy as A Way Out for Twenty-First-Century Japan....Pages 111-125
Who Killed Our Children?: The Anatomy of a Protest Film....Pages 127-143
The Unsettled Hearts and Souls: Aftershock of the Great Sichuan Earthquake....Pages 145-150
The Making of a Cantonese Popular Song amidst National Crises in China: From Jiang Jun Ling to “Once Upon a Time in China”....Pages 151-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Reestablishing National Identity by Reevaluating A Nation’s Past—A University’s Effort to Recover from War in the Late 1990s Cambodia: An Ethnographic Account....Pages 173-183
From Typhoon Ondoy to the Unnamed Monsoon (2009–2012): Policy Reforms and Challenges in the Philippine Disaster Management System....Pages 185-199
Who Protects Our Lives?: Managing Crises and Social Security in Socialist Laos and Japan....Pages 201-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-222