Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies

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