Japan's 2011 natural disasters and nuclear meltdown / Myra Immell, book editor.
2014
Book
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Item Details
ISBN: 0737769734
Description: 198 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-192) and index.
Contents:
- Historical background on Japan's 2011 natural disasters and nuclear meltdown. The 2011 Japanese disasters : an overview
- Japan shattered ; first the quakes, then the tsunami--now, the devastation of possible nuclear meltdown
- A second blast at the Fukushima nuclear plant
- Toxic truth about Japan's "miracle"
- As Japan's tsunami debris arrives, can the US west coast handle it?
- I am one of the Fukushima fifty
- Controversies surrounding Japan's 2011 natural disasters and nuclear meltdown. Japan prepared well for tsunamis
- Thousands died because Japan was not prepared for the tsunami
- The Fukushima nuclear power plant accident was a "man-made" disaster
- The Kan government's initial disaster response was resaonably good
- The Japanese government needs to revamp its disaster response plan
- The impact of disaster
- Too much self-restraint will harm Japan's national interest
- Japan's meltdown
- Earthquake, tsunami, meltdown--the triple disaster's impact on Japan, impact on the world
- Personal narratives. A Tokyo businesswoman feels stranded by the earthquake
- A foreign student experiences the 2011 earthquake
- A writer lives through the earthquake and other 2011 disasters
- A Japanese evacuee shares her concerns
- After the disaster : a return to devastated Japan
- A journalist visits the Fukushima nuclear plant
- Tracking tsunami flotsam.
LCCN: 2013035654
Control Number: 1001100
Publisher: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, 2014.