Japan’s Triple Disaster

Japan's Triple Disaster is an ambitious and important book. It is unusual for bringing into dialogue the quite different constellation of issues found in the nuclear disaster and the coastal tsunami disaster. It is also unusual for its attention to a wide range of often overlooked-of women, of children, of foreign residents. Anyone interest in aftermath and memory of disaster, whether in Japan or around the world, should read this book. Andrew Gordon, Project Director of the Japan Disasters Digital Archive (JDA), Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University This is a well-researched and sophisticated collection of smart papers that allows us to see the 2011 disasters in a new way. It is one of the best examples of detailed research that explores the aftermath of the triple disaster. Moreover, it allows us to see the complicated aspects that the disasters revealed to us as always lurking just below the surface of local and national polity. Each chapter is theoretically informed and researched with careful detail. The different facets of justice become a very productive and original way to reexamine this disaster we once thought of as familiar. I recommend this book for scholars in the field and delightfully, due to the largely jargon free writing, it would work wonderfully for a course textbook. David H. Slater, Ph.D., Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Graduate Program in Japanese Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo This book addresses critical and challenging but invisible issues that should not be forgotten in disaster recovery and risk management. It is a must-read for disaster researchers and practitioners to understand injustices in disaster risk management, and gain hints to overcome them. Takako Izumi (PhD), Director, APRU Multi-Hazards Program, Associate Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS)/Graduate School of International Cultural Studies,Tohoku University, Japan