{"product_id":"when-the-tsunami-came-to-shore-culture-and-disaster-in-japan-9789004268296","title":"When the Tsunami Came to Shore: Culture and Disaster in Japan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Editor Starrs has put together a comprehensive look at the Japanese cultural response to the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disasters. The book includes contributions from a diverse array of international scholars of Japanese religion, anthropology, intellectual history, literature, and popular music.  The chapters cover a variety of themes, including the idea in many religions that disaster is “heaven’s punishment,” or tembatsu; responses to past disasters, including major earthquakes and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and the importance of the use of Twitter by some of the most important post-3\/11 poets. Summing Up: Recommended. Best for advanced students of intellectual and cultural history.\" - E. L. Hirsch, Providence College [This review appeared in the March 2015 issue of CHOICE. Copyright 2015 American Library Association]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Introduction: Cultural Responses to Disaster in Japan Roy Starrs, University of Otago  PART ONE: CULTURAL RESPONSES TO THE TRIPLE DISASTER OF MARCH 2011  1 Nature’s Blessing, Nature’s Wrath: Shinto Responses to the Disasters of 2011 Aike P. Rots, University of Oslo  2 Gods, Dragons, Catfish, and Godzilla: Fragments for a History of Religious Views on Natural Disasters in Japan Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara  3 Buddhism: The Perfect Religion for Disasters? Brian Victoria, International Research Center for Japanese Studies  4 Post-3\/11 Literature in Japan Roman Rosenbaum, University of Sydney  5 These Things Here and Now: Poetry in the Wake of 3\/11 Jeffrey Matthew Angles, Western Michigan University  6 ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’: Responses to 3\/11 – Constructing Community Through Music and the Music Industry Henry Johnson, University of Otago  7 Learning that Emerges in Times of Trouble: a Few Cases from Japan Joy Hendry, Professor Emerita, Oxford Brookes University  8 Observations on Geomentality in Japan and New Zealand Ken Henshall, University of Canterbury  PART TWO: TOWARDS A WIDER PERSPECTIVE – JAPANESE CULTURAL RESPONSES TO EARLIER DISASTERS   9 ‘All Shook Up’: Post-religious Responses to Disaster in Murakami Haruki’s after the quake Jonathan Dil, Chuo University   10 Disaster and National Identity: The Textual Transformations of Japan Sinks Rebecca Suter, University of Sydney  11 Belated Arrival in Political Transition: 1950s Films on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Yuko Shibata, University of Otago   12 Hiroshima Rages, Nagasaki Prays: Nagai Takashi’s Catholic Response to the Atomic Bombing Kevin M. Doak, Georgetown University  13 The Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 and Poetry Leith Morton, Tokyo Institute of Technology  14 Proletarian Writers and the Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 Mats Karlsson, University of Sydney    15 The ‘Silenced Nexus’: Female Mediation in Modern Japanese Literature of Disaster Janice Brown, University of Colorado Boulder","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210648314199,"sku":"9789004268296","price":152.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-the-tsunami-came-to-shore-culture-and-disaster-in-japan-9789004268296","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}