Japan's triple disaster : pursuing justice after the great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear accident

The authors of this volume discuss questions of disaster and justice from various interdisciplinary vantage points, including public policy, science and technology studies, law, gender, sociology and psychology, social and cultural anthropology, town planning and tourism. The term "natural" disasters is a misnomer; cataclysmic natural events that impact humans can often be anticipated and their consequences should be prevented - the failure to do so is a failure of politics, policy and risk planning. Presenting research on more than a decade after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the chapters highlight not only the manifold challenges in the direct disaster response and policymaking but also the difficulties of "just" long- term recovery. Arguing for just distribution, recognition and participation, this volume provides a diversity of perspectives on these issues as experienced after the 2011 disasters through detailed and nuanced analyses presented by early career researchers and senior academics coming from various countries and continents of the world. The insights of this volume galvanise the discussion of disaster governance and highlight the variety of disaster (in)justices and the ways disasters force people to contest and reimagine their relationships with their countries, neighborhoods, families, and friends. A valuable read for scholars and students researching issues related to mass emergencies, justice theory and civil activism.

Introduction Natalia Novikova, Julia Gerster, and Manuela Hartwig Part I: Nuclear Disaster and Recovery Challenges 1. Ten Years of Recovery and Revitalization Policies after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster Kota Kawasaki 2. Restoring the Rights of Fukushima Nuclear Accident Victims through Collective Lawsuits Masafumi Yokemoto 3. Voicing the Invisible: Resilience, Adaptation, and Resistance in the Narratives of the Fukushima Plaintiffs Giulia De Togni 4. Japanese Politics and Nuclear Energy in the Ten Years since Fukushima: A Meta-Political Justice Perspective Katsuyuki Hidaka Part II: Dismissed Voices and Agency 5. Disasters and Domestic Violence: Making Structural Injustices toward Women after the Great East Japan Earthquake Visible Mariko Ogawa 6. Citizenship and Disaster: Experiences of Foreign Women after 3.11 Sunhee Lee 7. The Recognition of "Death by Disaster" Yuki Sadaike Part III: Discredited Voices in the Credibility Economy of Disaster 8. Strategic Just-Peacebuilding and Citizen Activities after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident Akiko Ishihara 9. The Right to Be Heard: Analyzing Parents' Activism in the Kanto Region Natalia Novikova 10. Growing up in Fukushima Prefecture after the Nuclear Accident: Young People Give Voice to the Stories of Non-Evacuated Communities Shira Taube Dayan Part IV: Place-making and Identity 11. Community Empowerment for a Just Recovery of Gathering Spaces: Case Studies from 3.11 Yegane Ghezelloo and Elizabeth Maly 12. Lowering Mountains, Raising Walls: Impacts of Rebuilding in Coastal Miyagi Communities Alyne Delaney 13. From Being Seen and Heard to Feeling Displaced: The Double-Edged Sword of Tohoku's Post-Disaster Tourism Anna Vainio and Annaclaudia Martini 14. The 3.11 disasters and Challenges of Pursuing Justice: Epilogue Aya H. Kimura