When the tsunami came to shore : culture and disaster in Japan /
Starrs, Roy,1946-editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Cultural responses to disaster in Japan / Roy Starrs -- Part I. Cultural responses to the triple disaster of March 2011 -- Nature's blessing, nature's wrath : Shinto responses to the disasters of 2011 / Aike P. Rots -- Gods, dragons, catfish, and Godzilla : fragments for a history of religious views on natural disasters in Japan / Fabio Rambelli -- Buddhism, the perfect religion for disasters? / Brian Victoria -- Post-3/11 literature in Japan / Roman Rosenbaum -- These things here and now : poetry in the wake of 3/11 / Jeffrey Matthew Angles -- "Shake, rattle and roll" : responses to 3/11 : constructing community through music and the music industry / Henry Johnson -- Learning that emerges in times of trouble : a few cases from Japan / Jay Hendry -- Observations on geomentality in Japan and New Zealand / Kenneth Henshall -- Part 2. Towards a wider perspective -- Japanese cultural responses to earlier disasters -- "All shook up" : post-religious responses to disaster in Murakami Haruki's After the quake / Jonathan Dil -- Disaster and national identity : the textual transformations of Japan sinks / Rebecca Suter -- Belated arrival in political transition : 1950s films on Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Yuko Shibata -- Hiroshima rages, Nagasaki prays : Nagai Takashi's Catholic response to the atomic bombing / Kevin M. Doak -- The great Tokyo earthquake of 1923 and poetry / Leith Morton -- Proletarian writers and the great Tokyo earthquake of 1923 / Mats Karlsson -- The "silenced nexus" : female mediation in modern Japanese literature of disaster / Janice Brown.
Disasters
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
Typhoons
Floods
Atomic bomb
Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923.
Disasters
Disasters in literature.
Japanese literature