When the tsunami came to shore : culture and disaster in Japan / edited by Roy Starrs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Starrs, Roy, 1946- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters--Social aspects--Japan--History.

Disasters.

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.

Typhoons--Japan--History--21st century.

Typhoons.

Floods--Japan--History--21st century.

Floods.

Atomic bomb--Japan--History--20th century.

Atomic bomb.

Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923.

Disasters--Japan--Religious aspects--History.

Disasters in literature.

Japanese literature--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Global Oriental, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading experts on Japanese religion, anthropology, history, literature and music presents new research and thinking on the long and complex relationship between culture and disaster in Japan, one of the most “disaster-prone” countries in the world. Focusing first on responses to the triple disasters of March 2011, the book then puts the topic in a wider historical context by looking at responses to earlier disasters, both natural and man-made, including the great quakes of 1995 and 1923 and the atomic bombings of 1945. This wide-ranging “double structure” enables an in-depth understanding of the complexities of the issues involved that goes well beyond the clichés and the headlines.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Roy Starrs

Introduction: Cultural Responses to Disaster in Japan / Roy Starrs

Nature’s Blessing, Nature’s Wrath: Shinto Responses to the Disasters of 2011 / Aike P. Rots

Gods, Dragons, Catfish, and Godzilla: Fragments for a History of Religious Views on Natural Disasters in Japan / Fabio Rambelli

Buddhism: The Perfect Religion for Disasters? / Brian Victoria

Post-3/11 Literature in Japan / Roman Rosenbaum

These Things Here and Now: Poetry in the Wake of 3/11 / Jeffrey Angles

‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’: Responses to 3/11 – Constructing Community Through Music and the Music Industry / Henry Johnson

Learning that Emerges in Times of Trouble: A Few Cases from Japan / Joy Hendry

Observations on Geomentality in Japan and New Zealand / Kenneth Henshall

‘All Shook Up’: Post-religious Responses to Disaster in Murakami Haruki’s after the quake / Jonathan Dil

Disaster and National Identity: The Textual Transformations of Japan Sinks / Rebecca Suter

Belated Arrival in Political Transition: 1950's Films on Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Yuko Shibata

Hiroshima Rages, Nagasaki Prays: Nagai Takashi’s Catholic Response to the Atomic Bombing / Kevin M. Doak

The Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 and Poetry / Leith Morton

Proletarian Writers and the Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 / Mats Karlsson

The ‘Silenced Nexus’: Female Mediation in Modern Japanese Literature of Disaster / Janice Brown

Index / Roy Starrs.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-26831-6

OCLC:

890982344