Bates, Alex.The Culture of the Quake: The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taishô Japan. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Japanese Studies/The University of Michigan, 2015., The Culture of the Quake is first and foremost an exploration...
This essay explores two different approaches to disaster found in fiction following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923: trauma and differential vulnerability., Alex Bates, "Fiction from Unstable Ground: The Imagination of...
Ishigami Genʼichirō was at his apartment in the Kobe foothills when the Great Hanshin Awaji earthquake struck on January 17, 1995. Like most people, he was awakened by the early-morning shaking and rushed outside. From the...
The 3.11 triple disasters occurred at a moment of increased anti-immigrant sentiment in Japan exemplified by the activities of the Zaitokukai, a particularly anti-Korean right-wing group. This xenophobic sentiment provided...
Bates, Alex. Teaching Japanese War Crimes through Literature. In Teaching Postwar Japanese Fiction, edited by Alex Bates, 157-168. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2023., Japanese fiction studied in...