Japan today is at an important historical juncture. Buffeted in recent years by rapid economic, social, and political change, yet still very much steeped in custom and history, the nation has become a
A January 1995 earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, Japan. This work describes the first ten years of reconstruction efforts and offers a detailed description of the geography of the crisis and rec
Japan today is at an important historical juncture. Buffeted in recent years by rapid economic, social, and political change, yet still very much steeped in custom and history, the nation has become a
Six thousand people died and hundreds of thousands lost their homeswhen the Great Hanshin Earthquake hit Kobe in January 1995. It was thelargest disaster to affect postwar Japan and one of the mostdes
