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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 3/11 Critical Notes
Dystopia of Civil Society Part 1, Chigaya Kinoshita
Dystopia of Civil Society Part 2, Chigaya Kinoshita,
Japan's Nuclear Crises, Richard Samuels
Notes on the 4.5 Great Kamagasaki Oppression and Nuclear Power Industry, Takeshi Haraguchi
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
Channel 4 News: Tsunami Revisited
National Geographic News: Japan Tsunami: 20 Unforgettable Pictures
New York Times: Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami
The Guardian: Japan tsunami: Dramatic amateur footage
The Guardian: Japan tsunami: the aftermath – in pictures
Japan 3/11 Global Media Articles
After Fukushima: Enough Is Enough
Shigeru Ban on Designing Shelters for the Quake Victims
Tsunami Warnings, Written in Stone
Related Films
Black Sea Files, Ursula Biemann (2005)
Explaining the Nuclear Accident to Kids – Nuclear Reactor Boy’s Upset Stomach (2011)
Lessons of Darkness, Werner Herzog (1992)
Manufactured Landscapes, Ed Burtynsky (2007)
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, Lucy Walker
When the Levees Broke, Spike Lee (2006)
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
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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
Examples of Creative Responses to Conflict and Crisis
Revival Field: Projection and Procedure, Mel Chin
Related Links
4.314/4.315 Stellar Site
MIT Japan 3/11 Initiative
Zones of Emergency Fall 2011
Zones of Emergency Spring 2008
MIT Related Sites
MIT Environmental Policy and Planning
MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
General Sources on Conflict and Crises
Transconflict
Presentations
Some Creative Responses to Conflict and Crisis
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