Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo

by Janet Borland

Book Overview

Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepared to face such seismic risk. This was not always the case.

Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan's infrastructure of resilience. Drawing from a rich collection of previously unexplored sources, Janet Borland vividly illustrates that Japan's contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674247825
• ISBN13: 9780674247826
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages