Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies

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