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The Great East Japan Disaster – a compound catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that began on March

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Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan
1350122491, 9781350122499

The Great East Japan Disaster – a compound catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that began on March

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On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake originating less than 50 mi

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Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading experts on Japanese religion, anthr

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Offering a concise, entertaining snapshot of Japanese society, Manners and Mischief examines etiquette guides, advice li

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From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance o

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This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about langua

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How do teachers, who have chosen to settle down in one country, manage the difficulties of living and teaching English i

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Thoughtfully engaging yet theoretically sophisticated, Into the Fire reveals how disasters bring traditional patterns of

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On the 11th of March 2011, an earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter scale (the most powerful to ever strike Japan) h

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Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic

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