Regional survival and environmental politics after 3.11
I. Post-mainstream, post-3.11: Slow change, sudden shock
- The triple disaster
- Crisis: Which character will prevail?
- From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Godzilla and the “nuclear village”
II. The terrain of disaster
III. The timing of disaster: The “3” of “3.11”
IV. The “culture” of response
V. Three unlikely “heroes” after 3.11
- Volunteers and civil society
- The military (the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the US military’s Operation Tomodachi)
- The imperial couple
VI. Energy and the environment after 3.11
- “Setsuden” (electrical energy conservation)
- Energy security vs. environmental sustainability (wealth vs. health)
- The fate of the nuclear village
VII. What does “recovery” mean?
Some examples of reporting and representing
- New York Times, Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami
- Herald Sun, 360-degree images of damage
- Washington Post, Devastation in Ishinomaki
- Pink Tentacle, Gallery of namazu-e prints
- Pink Tentacle, Gallery of electricity conservation posters
- Boston Globe, Japan, three months after the quake
- Brown University, The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
- BBC Horizon Special, Program on the 2011 Japan Earthquake
- Higuchi Kenji, Nuclear Ginza (1995 documentary on nuclear power industry workers) part 1, part 2, part 3