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In March 2011 Japan's Tōhoku region was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami. This was another blow to an area that has been dogged by hardships throughout Japanese history. Beginning in the middle of the 19th century, modern Japan, in its quest to form a nation-state, situated Tōhoku on the periphery and emphasised the region's alleged backwardness. By examining how Tōhoku has been perceived and constructed through this lens across the span of history, Hidemichi Kawanishi reveals a Japan that is far more diverse than traditionally thought.

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The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and applied in the affected region. This book attempts to draw lessons from different issues and sectors such as policy perspectives (both national and local), the role of international NGOs, fishing industries and other livelihoods, temporary housing, health, heritage, and lesson sharing. The book outlines the need and approach for sharing the lessons with wider communities in developing those lessons. Based on intensive field research, the book also provides some key lessons from community-based recovery in the affected regions of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures.   This book has 13 chapters in two parts. The first part of the book, with seven chapters, provides a set of lessons from diverse sectors. The second part, with six chapters, provides case studies from different areas of Tohoku. Six specific issues are addressed in part 1: the role of international agencies, livelihood (namely, fisheries) recovery, temporary housing, health, heritage, and lesson sharing. Part 2 has six case studies from different areas of the Tohoku region, including Fukushima.   The primary target groups for this book are students and researchers in the fields of environment, disaster risk reduction, and recovery studies. The book provides them with a good idea of the current research trends in the field and furnishes basic knowledge about these vital topics. Another target group comprises practitioners and policy makers, who will be able to apply the knowledge collected here to policy and decision-making.

Earth Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Environmental Management. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Geography. --- Geology. --- Regional planning. --- Environmental management. --- Géographie --- Géologie --- Aménagement du territoire --- Environnement --- Gestion --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Disasters --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011. --- Disaster relief --- Disaster risk reduction. --- Research --- Disaster assistance --- Emergency assistance in disasters --- Emergency relief --- Great East Japan Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Great East Japan Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Great Tohoku Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Great Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Northeast Region Pacific Ocean Offshore Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Pacific Offshore Tohoku Region Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Tohoku Pacific Ocean Earthquake, Japan, 2011 --- Earth sciences. --- Culture --- Natural disasters. --- Urban planning. --- Study and teaching. --- Emergency management --- Human services --- Earthquakes --- Tsunamis --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Regional development --- Regional planning --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Government policy --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Natural calamities --- Cultural studies --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (Japan : 2011) --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (Japan : 2011) --- 2011 --- Tōhoku Region (Japan) --- Japan --- Ōu Region (Japan)