TY  - BOOK
AU  - Borland,Janet
TI  - Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo 
T2  - Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021
SN  - 9781684176212
AV  - HV600 1923 .J3 
U1  - 363.34/9570820952 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill | Harvard University Asia Center
KW  - Child welfare
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Moral education
KW  - Resilience (Personality trait)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Janet Borland --; Introduction; Janet Borland --; A City at Risk; Janet Borland --; Hell on Earth; Janet Borland --; Objects of Sympathy and Specialized Care; Janet Borland --; Objects of Investigation and Agents of Recovery; Janet Borland --; Earthquake Teachers; Janet Borland --; "Wake Up, Japan! Know Yourself, and Know Your Enemy"; Janet Borland --; Disaster- Resistant Schools and Centers of Community Resilience; Janet Borland --; Epilogue; Janet Borland --; Notes; Janet Borland --; Bibliography; Janet Borland --; Index; Janet Borland --; Harvard East Asian Monographs; Janet Borland
N2  - 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 and resilient nations to face such sizeable 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 culture of disaster preparedness and its people's ability to respond calmly in a time of emergency are the result of learned and practiced behaviors. She traces their origins to the aftermath of the Great Kantō Earthquake, which killed over 100,000 people when it struck the Tokyo region in 1923. Beyond providing new perspectives on Japan's seismic past, the history of childhood, and everyday life in interwar Japan, this book challenges popular notions that Japanese people behave calmly whenever disaster strikes due to their innate qualities. Tokyo's traumatic experiences in 1923 convinced government officials, seismologists, teachers, physicians, and architects that Japan must better prepare for future disasters. Earthquake Children documents how children, schools, and education became primary tools through which experts sought to build a disaster-prepared society and resilient nation
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781684176212
ER  -