Shoichiro Takezawa: 1 book
The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Living among the Rubble
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
An insightful study in disaster anthropology, this book takes as its focus the fishing town of Otsuchi in Japan’s Iwate Prefecture, one of the worst damaged areas in the mammoth 2011 tsunami. Here, 1281 of the pre-tsunami population of 15000 were killed and 60% of houses destroyed. To make matters...
