Introduction / Mitsuo Yamakawa, Katsumi Nakai, Daisaku Yamamoto -- Shaky ground : the geophysical dynamics and sustained seismicity of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake / Yosuke Nakamura -- Outline of an invisible disaster : physio-spatial processes and the dif…
The Fukushima disaster continues to appear in national newspapers when there is another leakage of radiation-contaminated water, evacuation designations are changed, or major compensation issues arise and so remains far from over. However, after five years, attention and researc…
The Fukushima disaster continues to appear in national newspapers when there is another leakage of radiation-contaminated water, evacuation designations are changed, or major compensation issues arise and so remains far from over. However, after five years, attention and researc…
The primary focus of this research was to develop localisation systems for underwater vehicles operating in confined and potentially cluttered environments. The target application is the monitoring of wet nuclear reactors and storage ponds, both legacy and modern, although the t…
Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary Japanese society, despite people’s struggles in the recession. Our social relationships become entangled, and we can no longer clearly identify our interest in politics. The search for the outside of stagnant reality someti…
Every year, on March 11, the nation remembers the tragedy that happened in 2011. For one day, the media is engulfed with stories of survival, heroism, tragedy, lost loved ones, parents still searching for their children's remains, evacuees seeking compensation. But on any other …
"A large area that includes Fukushima Prefecture was seriously contaminated by radioactive materials emitted into the atmosphere and the ocean by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (hereafter, FDNPS1) of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which was caused…
"In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists ... team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan ... to tell this harrowing story, [which] combines [an] ... account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it c…
How can ecocriticism and ecology-conscious scholars engage with Japanese literature and culture? This volume attempts to provide the most updated answers to this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express thei…
The twelfth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on "Don't Follow the Wind," the acclaimed collaborative project situated in the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone. The book explores the long-term environmental crisis in the coastal Japanese region through th…
Natural disasters are often multifaceted and cause severe damage. Disasters initiated locally can become national and even global crises. Today's world urgently needs a new body of knowledge and techniques for the mitigation of and response to disaster. Central to such a body of…
Natural disasters are often multifaceted and cause severe damage. Disasters initiated locally can become national and even global crises. Today's world urgently needs a new body of knowledge and techniques for the mitigation of and response to disaster. Central to such a body of…
