Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies

Chapter 1 The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the People’s Tribunal on Nuclear Power

Chapter 2 Them versus Us: Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

Chapter 3 The Evolution of Disaster Volunteering in Japan: From Kobe to Tohoku

Chapter 4 Religious Responses to Natural Disasters: From Hurricane Katrina to the Great East Japan Earthquake

Chapter 5 Chinese Reactions to Disasters in Japan: From the Great Kanto Earthquake to the Great East Japan Earthquake

Chapter 6 Bombs Bursting in Air: State and Citizen Responses to the US Firebombing and Atomic Bombing of Japan

Chapter 7 Searching Reality in Virtuality: Fantasy as A Way Out for Twenty-First-Century Japan

Chapter 8 Who Killed Our Children? : The Anatomy of a Protest Film

Chapter 9 The Unsettled Hearts and Souls: Aftershock of the Great Sichuan Earthquake

Chapter 10 The Making of a Cantonese Popular Song amidst National Crises in China: From Jiang Jun Ling to “Once Upon a Time in China”

Chapter 11 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

Chapter 12 From Typhoon Ondoy to the Unnamed Monsoon (2009–2012): Policy Reforms and Challenges in the Philippine Disaster Management System

Chapter 13 Who Protects Our Lives?: Managing Crises and Social Security in Socialist Laos and Japan