Dealing with Crisis

Edited by J. Babb and Takashi Iida, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

‘Extrapolating lessons from the diverse Japanese experience with disasters, this timely book investigates what policymakers, institutions and individual actors can do when a crisis, in all its unforeseen and multi-faceted complexity, strikes. Multidisciplinary in scope, it makes an important, wide-ranging and fascinating contribution to global crisis studies and disaster management research.’

• Contents:Preface xii1 Dealing with crisis: the Japanese experience and beyond 1J. Babb and Takashi IidaPART I HOW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT CRISIS2 How can we prepare for something we don’t want to thinkabout? Disaster readiness and negative capability 10Shin Arita3 Bricolage by institutions: towards the recreation of normsand organizations 27Takashi IidaPART II THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKEAND ASSOCIATED CRISES4 Transforming a crisis into a turning point: the response ofbusinesses to the Great East Japan Earthquake 47Naofumi Nakamura5 Electric power crisis and crisis response after the GreatEast Japan Earthquake 67Toshihiro MatsumuraPART III LAW AND INSTITUTIONS IN THERESPONSE TO CRISIS6 Contractual crisis and the doctrine of change ofcircumstances: the results and contexts of the reform ofcontract law in Japan 86Hiroyasu Ishikawa7 State of emergency clauses in constitutional law 107Tomonobu Hayashi8 Missing the point: facts and rhetoric about Japan’s fiscal crisis 130Takeshi Fujitani9 The crisis of war and the relocation of key facilities:a comparative historical study of Japan and China 154Tomoo Marukawa10 Japan–China relations “in crisis,” and sentiment toward China 175Asei ItōIndex