Handbook of Disaster Studies in Japan (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction. Disaster Studies in Japan  Part 1: Lenses  1. Coping with the “Inexplicable”: H?j?ki and Premodern Japanese Perceptions of Disaster  2. Fighting the “Morbid Fear” of Fire in Tokyo, 1872?1945  3. Disaster Research and Practice: The Development of the Field since the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (1995)  4. Japanese Cities, Disaster, and Urban Sociology  5. The Evolution of Disaster Education in Japan  6. Disability and Disaster  7. Aging and Disaster Resilience  8. Women and Children in Disasters  9. Disasters without Borders: The Coronavirus Pandemic, Global Climate Change, and the Ascendancy of Gradual Onset Disasters  10. Japan’s Disaster Culture and Local Communities  11. Disaster Medical System in Japan  12. Businesses and Disaster: Japanese Companies’ Responses to Vulnerability through Corporate Disaster Prevention and BCP  13. International Students and Disasters  Part 2: Human Activities  14. Big Data-Driven Disaster Management and Resilience  15. It’s Who You Know: How Social Networks Help Cities Rebuild with Renewables after Disaster  16. Social Capital Differences in Disaster Resilience: A Comparison between China and Japan  17. Stronger Together: The Critical Role of Bridging and Linking Social Capital in Evacuation Outcomes  18. Community Preparedness and Emergency Response for Natural Hazard-Triggered Technological Accidents  19. Disaster Risk Management and Formal Non-Governmental Actors in Japan: Knowledge and Learning-Oriented Initiatives of Post-3.11 NGO/NPO Networks  20. Networks of Non-Profit Organizations in Japan’s Disaster Recovery  21. Emergency Response to 2020 Kumamoto Floods amid COVID-19  22. The Evolution of Japan’s ODA Disaster Response, with Special Reference to Indonesia and the Philippines  23. Japan’s Disaster Risk Reduction Diplomacy and the “Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction”  Part 3: Disaster Experiences  24. Storytelling and the Arts as Tools in Disaster Risk Education: Tohoku University’s “Kataritsugi” and the Stories of 3.11  25. COVID-19 and SDGs: Civil Society Perspectives  26. Interfaith Chaplaincy Movement in Japan Precipitated by the Tsunami in 2011  27. Symbolic Recovery, Intellectuals, and External Supporters in Local Reconstruction  28. Risks Confronting Buddhist Temples in Responding to COVID-19  29. Women in Faith-Based Disaster Response to the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes  30. Negative Social Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences among Mothers of Infants and/or Young Children in Japan  31. Mobilized Mothers Triumph: Social Movement Protest to the Triple Disaster  32. Women and Resilience in Japan: The Role of Kirikiri’s Fujinkai Leaders in Disaster Management  33. The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the Migrant Community in Kobe  34. Resilience in the Everyday: Older People in Disaster Relocation  35. Shuri Castle: Okinawa as a Site of Vulnerability and Resilience  36. Loss, Place, and Rituals: Community Commemoration in Iwate Prefecture after 3.11  37. The Importance of Remembering Public Transportation Accidents in Japan  38. Hiroshima’s Forgotten Voices: Resilience in Hibakusha Video Testimony and Memorialization  39. Compassionate Grounds: Contemporary Artists’ Responses to the Ongoing Recovery of T?hoku 40. Popular Culture of Disaster: Developments Post-3.11  Appendix 1: List of Disasters 1945-2025  Appendix 2: Negative Social Support Experiences Study  Conclusion