Handbook of Disaster Studies in Japan

This volume is a critical interrogation of the concept, meaning and experience of disaster in 21st-century Japan. Throughout the chapters, a central theme and guiding theoretical perspective is the recognition of the human element in disasters.

Paola Cavaliere is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Milan. She previously served as Associate Professor and Director of the Human Sciences International Undergraduate Program at the University of Osaka.

Junko Otani, DDS, MPH, MS, PhD, is a Professor at the Graduate School of Human Sci- ences at the University of Osaka, and is a Visiting Researcher at the Disaster, Climate and Adversity Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Mel- bourne