Earthquake Nationalism and Nuclear Empire: “Power” Struggles in the Land of Catfish
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Chiaki Takagi (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This essay introduces my ongoing research project that was inspired by Japan’s 2011 disasters. Japan has been going through its long-lasting recovery process from the Magnitude 9 earthquake and massive tsunami attack as well as a secondary accident of the nuclear meltdown. Now that these catastrophes have added another dimension to Japanese society, it is crucial to rethink Japan as an earthquake nation paying special attention to the effects of earthquakes on various aspects of Japan’s modern development. I reframe the contradictory existence of nuclear power plants on an earthquake nation as the friction between Japan’s “earthquake nationalism” and the “nuclear empire” formation.
Earthquake Nationalism and Nuclear Empire: “Power” Struggles in the Land of Catfish
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- Publication
- Virginia Review of Asian Studies (VRAS) 14 (2012): 161-165.
- Language: English
- Date: 2012
- Keywords
- Cultural Studies, Japan, Earthquakes, Natural disasters, Nationalism