The Culture of the Quake is first and foremost an exploration of Taishô-era narrative fiction. Every major film studio produced earthquake films, and authors from I-novelists to modernists, proletarian writers to popular...
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...
This volume is devoted to teaching works of Japanese fiction---novels, short stories, and manga (graphic novels and comics)---produced following the end of Japan's war with China, America, and their allies in 1945. The title is...
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...
