Crisis and Disaster in Japan and New Zealand: Actors, Victims and Ramifications

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This collection examines a broad spectrum of natural and human-made disasters that have occurred in Japan and New Zealand, including WWII and the atomic bombing of Japan and two recent major earthquake events, the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Christchurch Earthquake, which occurred in 2011. Through these studies, the book provides important insights into the events themselves and their tragic effects, but most significantly a multidisciplinary take on the different cultural responses to disaster, changing memories of disasters over time, the impacts of disaster on different societies, and the challenges post-disaster in reviving communities and traditional cultural practices. Bringing in humanities and social science perspectives to disaster studies, this collection offers a significant contribution to disaster studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction (Susan Bouterey, Lawrence E. Marceau)....Pages 1-11 One Flood, Two ‘Saviours’: Takebe Ayatari’s Changing Discourse on the Kanpō Floods of 1742 (Lawrence E. Marceau)....Pages 13-21 Writing Shanghai, the Atomic Bomb, and Incest: Homelessness and Stigmatized Womanhood of Hayashi Kyōko (Yuko Shibata)....Pages 23-40 Resilience of Communities Affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Restoration of Their Local Festivals (Katsuhiko Takizawa)....Pages 41-57 Foreign Residents’ Experiences of the Flyjin Phenomenon in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (Patrick Cadwell)....Pages 59-78 The Anthropologist as Both Disaster Victim and Disaster Researcher: Reflections and Advocacy (Hiroki Takakura)....Pages 79-103 Interpretation of Development and Representation of Disasters in Japan’s Foreign Aid Narrative (Akiko Horita)....Pages 105-119 ‘The Confidence to Know I Can Survive’: Resilience and Recovery in Post-quake Christchurch (Rosemary Du Plessis, Judith Sutherland, Liz Gordon, Helen Gibson)....Pages 121-142 Interpreters at the Front Line: Some Reflections on the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake (Susan Bouterey)....Pages 143-157 The Challenge, the Project, and the Politics: Lessons from Six Years of the UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive (Paul Millar, Christopher Thomson, James Smithies, Jennifer Middendorf)....Pages 159-179 Back Matter ....Pages 181-191