TY - BOOK AU - Starrs,Roy TI - When the Tsunami Came to Shore: Culture and Disaster in Japan SN - 9789004268319 AV - DS806.5 .W47 2014 U1 - 363.34/940952090512 PY - 2014/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Disasters--Social aspects--Japan--History KW - Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 KW - Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 KW - Typhoons--Japan--History--21st century KW - Floods--Japan--History--21st century KW - Atomic bomb--Japan--History--20th century KW - Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 KW - Disasters--Japan--Religious aspects--History KW - Disasters in literature KW - Japanese literature--History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- When the Tsunami Cameto Shore -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Cultural Responses to Disaster in Japan -- PART 1: Cultural Responses to the Triple Disaster of March 2011 -- 1 Nature's Blessing, Nature's Wrath: Shinto Responses to the Disasters of 2011 -- 2 Gods, Dragons, Catfish, and Godzilla: Fragments for a History of Religious Views on Natural Disasters in Japan -- 3 Buddhism: The Perfect Religion for Disasters? -- 4 Post-3/11 Literature in Japan -- 5 These Things Here and Now: Poetry in the Wake of 3/11 -- 6 'Shake, Rattle and Roll': Responses to 3/11 - Constructing Community Through Music and the Music Industry -- 7 Learning that Emerges in Times of Trouble: A Few Cases from Japan -- 8 Observations on Geomentality in Japan and New Zealand -- Part 2: Towards a Wider Perspective - Japanese Cultural Responses to Earlier Disasters -- 9 'All Shook Up': Post-religious Responses to Disaster in Murakami Haruki's after the quake -- 10 Disaster and National Identity: The Textual Transformations of Japan Sinks -- 11 Belated Arrival in Political Transition: 1950s Films on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- 12 Hiroshima Rages, Nagasaki Prays: Nagai Takashi's Catholic Response to the Atomic Bombing -- 13 The Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 and Poetry -- 14 Proletarian Writers and the Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 -- 15 The 'Silenced Nexus': Female Mediation in Modern Japanese Literature of Disaster -- Index N2 - Some leading Japan scholars present new research and thinking on the profound relationship between culture and disaster in Japan, focusing on the triple disasters of March 2011, the great quakes of 1995 and 1923, and the atomic bombings of 1945 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1786628 ER -