The Aftermath of the 2011 east Japan earthquake and tsunami living among the rubble

• Main Authors: Takezawa, Shōichirō, Barton, Polly
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 2016; Lexington Books; Bloomsbury Publishing; Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Chosen Kogei Kenkyukai; Community Participation; Disaster Planning; Disaster relief; Disaster relief > Japan > Ōtsuchi-chō; Disaster relief. (OCoLC)fst00894731; Earthquakes; Earthquakes > Japan > Ōtsuchi-chō; Earthquakes. (OCoLC)fst00900899; Effect of environment on; Effect of environment on. (OCoLC)fst00962843; HISTORY; HISTORY / Asia / Japan; Human beings; Human beings > Effect of environment on > Japan > Ōtsuchi-chō; Japan; Naturkatastrophe; organization & administration; Otsuchi-cho; Otsuchi-cho (Japan); Otsuchi-cho. (OCoLC)fst01212155; Relief Work; Social aspects; Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354981; Social conditions; Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (Japan : 2011) (OCoLC)fst01765297; Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011; Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 > Social aspects; Tohoku Region. (OCoLC)fst01240193; Tsunamis; Tsunamis > Japan > Ōtsuchi-chō; Tsunamis. (OCoLC)fst01158379; Ōtsuchi-chō (Japan) > Social conditions
• ISBN: 9781498542517; 1498542514; 1498542530; 9781498542531; 9781498542524; 1498542522
• DOI: 10.5040/9781978731295

An insightful study in disaster anthropology, this book takes as its focus the fishing town of Otsuchi in Japan’s Iwate Prefecture, one of the worst damaged areas in the mammoth 2011 tsunami. Here, 1281 of the pre-tsunami population of 15000 were killed and 60% of houses destroyed. To make matters w...

Table of Contents:

• The Aftermath of the 2011 east Japan earthquake and tsunami: living among the rubble -- Contents -- Introduction: The Tsunami Hits -- Chapter 1. The Day of Catastrophe: Escaping the Waves -- Chapter 2. The Weeks Following the Tsunami: Evading Danger, Running the Evacuation Centres -- Chapter 3. The Months after the Tsunami: The Reconstruction Process along the Sanriku Coast -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
• Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Day of Catastrophe -- Chapter 2 The Weeks Following the Tsunami -- Chapter 3 The Months after the Tsunami -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author