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How Does the Restoration of Tōhoku Society Begin? Center and Periphery in the Great East Japan Earthquake
Author(s) -
YAMASHITA YUSUKE
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of japanese sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.133
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1475-6781
pISSN - 0918-7545
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6781.2012.01172.x
Subject(s) - state (computer science) , accident (philosophy) , meaning (existential) , power (physics) , center (category theory) , political science , economy , history , sociology , economic history , economics , computer science , psychology , philosophy , chemistry , physics , epistemology , algorithm , psychotherapist , quantum mechanics , crystallography
What can we learn from the Great East Japan Earthquake? In this article, I examine the effects of the overarching physical and social system that has developed in Japanese society for the last half century. I use the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident as an example. I will also look to the meaning of kuni (the Japanese word for country, state or nation), and emphasize the urgent need to advance sociological comparative analysis of different forms of nation, state and country in times of emergency.