Yuki Tanaka, Hiroshima City University, JapanDavid McNeill, Sophia University, JapanSimon Avenell, National University of SingaporeBrian Victoria, Antioch University, USABiao Yang, East China Normal UniversityMark Selden, Cornell University, USAShuk-ting, Kinnia Yau, The Chinese University of Hong KongSiu-wah Yu, The Chinese University of Hong KongYee-chong Lee, Green PeaceBenigno Balgos, Center for Disaster Preparedness, The PhilippinesMasao Nishimura, Waseda University, JapanRie Odajima, Waseda University, Japan

"This stimulating collection is impressive in every way - from the chronological and geographic range of the twentieth-century Asian disasters covered to the international composition of contributing authors. Professor Yau's imaginative and wide-ranging editorial vision inspires confidence that the comparative and cosmopolitan study of modern Asia is in terrifically capable hands." - John W. Dower, Ford International Professor of History, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA "This is a handsome volume that brings together diverse experts in the field from multidisciplinary backgrounds. It attempts to reconstruct some important memories of natural disasters that happened in recent times. Designed in a chronological order, the reader is taken on a journey from reactions to the event to memory recollection and physical reconstruction. The tangible and intangible aspects of post-disaster work are weaved into the narrative as a hindsight reflection of the events." - Tai Wei Lim, Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• PART I: FUKUSHIMA 1. The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the People's Tribunal on Nuclear Power; Yuki Tanaka 2. Them versus Us: Japanese and International Reporting of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis; David McNeill 3. The Evolution of Disaster Volunteering in Japan: From Kobe to Tohoku; Simon Avenell 4. Religious Responses to Natural Disasters: From Hurricane Katrina to the Great East Japan Earthquake; Brian Victoria 5. Chinese Reactions to Disasters in Japan: From the Great Kanto Earthquake to the Great East Japan Earthquake; Biao Yang PART II: JAPAN 6. Bombs Bursting in Air: State and Citizen Responses to the US Firebombing and Atomic Bombing of Japan; Mark Selden 7. Searching Reality in Virtuality: Fantasy as a Way out for the 21st-Century Japan; Shuk-ting, Kinnia Yau PART III: CHINA 8. Contradictory Responses to the 'Same' Piece of Music: The Making of a 'Popular Song' through Different National Crises in China; Siu-wah Yu 9. Sichuan: Reconstruction and Disruption; Yee-chong Lee PART IV: SOUTHEAST ASIA 10. From Typhoon Ondoy to the Unnamed Monsoon: Policy Reforms and Challenges in the Philippines' Disaster Management System; Benigno Balgos 11. Re-establishing the National Identity through Re-evaluating Nation's Past: A University's Effort of Recovery from the War in Late 1990's Cambodia; Masao Nishimura 12. Who Protects Our Life?: Managing Crisis and Social Security in Socialist Laos and Japan; Rie Odajima