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1. Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan

   Response and Recovery after Japan's 3/11

   Edited by Jeff Kingston

   Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

   The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Japan's Quiet Transformation

   Social Change and Civil Society in 21st Century Japan

   By Jeff Kingston

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   The 1990s have been termed as 'Japan's lost decade' to describe how the phenomenal growth in the Japanese economy ground to a halt and the country was crippled by enormous and ongoing political, economic and social problems. In responding to these unprecedented difficulties, wide-ranging reforms...

   Published August 18th 2004 by Routledge