Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies

Session I. Reaction

1. The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and the People’s Tribunal on Nuclear Power
Tanaka Yuki

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
Yang Biao

Session II. Recollection

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 Twenty-First-Century Japan
Kinnia Yau Shuk-ting

8. Who Killed Our Children?: The Anatomy of a Protest Film
Paul Pickowicz

9. The Unsettled Hearts and Souls: Aftershock of the Great Sichuan Earthquake
Lee Yee-chong

10. The Making of a Cantonese Popular Song amidst National Crises in China: From Jiang Jun Ling to “Once Upon a Time in China”
Yu Siu-wah

Session III. Reconstruction

11. Reestablishing National Identity by Reevaluating A Nation’s Past—A University’s Effort to Recover from War in the Late 1990s Cambodia: An Ethnographic Account
Nishimura Masao

12. From Typhoon Ondoy to the Unnamed Monsoon (2009–2012): Policy Reforms and Challenges in the Philippine Disaster Management System
Benigno Balgos

13. Who Protects Our Lives?: Managing Crises and Social Security in Socialist Laos and Japan
Odajima Rie

Keywords: Economics, Regional/Spatial Science, Environmental Economics, Economic Policy, Development Economics, Economic Growth, Econometrics