Aftermath of Great Kanto earthquake showing the fire near the Yamashita bridge in the Kyobashi district
Japan 3/11 Journal Articles
- Danger in the Lowground: Historical Context for the March 11, 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami – The Asia Pacific Journal
- Fukushima Nuclear Accident – a simple and accurate explanation
- Japan Weighed Evacuating Tokyo in Nuclear Crisis
- Surviving a Tsunami—Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan
- The “End” of the Postwar: Japan at the Turn of the Millennium, Carol Gluck
Japan Web Resources
- Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
- Cool Japan – MIT/Harvard
- H-Japan
- Harvard Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
- http://www.ur-plaza.osaka-cu.ac.jp/en/staff/index.html
- Japan – Fissures in the Planetary Apparatus
- Japan Today
- Network for Historical Materials
- Osaka City University Urban Research Council
- Teach 3/11
- The Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters – Harvard University
- Think for Japan
Japan 3/11 Global Media Images
Japan 3/11 Global Media Articles
Related Films
Class Blog Posts
- Response to “Project Japan: Metabolism Talks”
- Different scales of Eras: From Metabolism movement to Great Earthquake Afterwards
- Emergency in Slow Motion
- Final Project Concept
- Comment on “Lessons of Darkness”
- Undisturbed
- Response to “Legal Issues Related to Sovereignty over Dokdo and Its Maritime Boundary”
- Conveying an idea: how many words does it really take?
- Project Update – Textbooks and Maps
- Animation of Relics / Propagation of Relics
- Information from Wikipedia on the lead up causes to the Fukushima Meltdowns
- Response to Aftershocks
- Pray for Japan Film – Premier March 14th
- Response to 246: Aftershocks – Stories from the Japan Earthquake
- The Fight for Amazonia
- Tendenko: Surviving the Tsunami
- Japan Tsunami Memorial – Sunday March 11, 11am-3pm
- Distant Suffering
- My thoughts on Distant Suffering
- Project Update – International Conflict
- Google search results on energy and natural disaster.
- Modern Causal Mythology
- Update on Project
- Interview form(draft) & Sound-Shape practice
- The Fukushima Disaster and Japan’s Occupy Movement
- Four Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima
- Response to Luc Boltanksi’s “Distant Suffering-Morality Media and Politics”
- Black Sea Files, Ursula Biemann
- Project Concept – Debris / Alive / Deconstruction
- 02/23 ACT cube
- Evaluating Intenational Relations Post-3/11
- Japan considers green future after nuclear disaster
- Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake + Creative Timeline Mapping Project
- Imaging Disaster – International Conference
- Thoughts on Disaster
- Desertification causes animals to freeze to death in Mongolia
- MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory responds to the Boston Globe
- Palestinian Youth Flying Kites in Gaza
- Children in Disaster: From Afghanistan to Japan
- Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake: Aftermath
- Japan, the earthquake and the media
- The Political and Psychological following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923
- Japan: Looking to the past for answers: Tendenko
- Productivity and Unity after Disaster
- Understanding Disaster
- A thought on disaster
- An Archeology of People & Place
- Contribute freely!
- Disaster at a Distance – Spring 2012
Readings
- Ai Weiwei challenges China's government over earthquake
- Disaster at a Distance: Impact of 9.11.01 Televised News Coverage on Mothers’ and Children’s Health
- Japan, the earthquake and the media – Open Democracy
- The Art of the Accident: Paul Virilio and Accelerated Modernity
- The fine line between meaningful art and disaster porn