03057nam 2200505 450 991079895930332120230126214809.01-4985-4252-2(CKB)3710000000933886(MiAaPQ)EBC4733190(EXLCZ)99371000000093388620161118h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe aftermath of the 2011 East Japan earthquake and tsunami living among the rubble /Shoichiro Takezawa ; translated by Polly BartonLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2016.©20161 online resource (231 pages) illustrations, maps1-4985-4253-0 1-4985-4251-4 Includes bibliographical references and index."An insightful study in disaster anthropology, The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 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,1,281 of the pre-tsunami population of 15,000 were killed and 60 percent of houses destroyed. To make matters worse, the town's administrative organs were completely obliterated and fire ravaged the downtown area for three days, blocking external rescue attempts. Complete with vivid and detailed witness testimony collected by the author, this book covers the eighteen months since the first day of the disaster through the subsequent months of community life in the evacuation centers and the struggles between the citizens and local governments in formulating reconstruction plans. It particularly addresses community interactions within the post-disaster context, assessing locals' varying degrees of success in organizing emergency committees to deal with such tasks as clearing rubble, hunting down food, obtaining fuel, and inquiring into the sociological reasons for these differences. It also casts new light on administrative failings that significantly augmented the loss of human lives in the diaster, and are threatening to bring further damage through insistence on reconstruction centered on enormous sea walls, agains local citizens' wishes"--Back cover.Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011Social aspectsEarthquakesJapanTsunamisJapanŌtsuchi-chō (Japan)Social conditionsJapanJapanŌtsuchi-chōfastJapanTōhoku RegionfastTohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011Social aspects.EarthquakesTsunamis363.349580952090512Takezawa Shoichiro1560819Polly BartonMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798959303321The aftermath of the 2011 East Japan earthquake and tsunami3827060UNINA