For the past year, Asia Pacific Memo has focused on the Japan earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster.
In March 2012, Dr. David W. Edgington summarized his post-disaster research in Soma City, a remote agriculture and fishing town along the coast. Lessons learned in disaster response from Soma City suggest that communication protocols between differentlevels of government need to be altered.
Dr. Daniel P. Aldrich argued that decision makers should help social networks flourish in post-disaster Japan. Communities with deeper, tighter social networks display more resilience and their residents repopulate damaged areas more quickly.
Last year, in addition to our interviews with Dr. Edgington and former Canadian Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Caron, our faculty member, Jessica Main discussed Japanese Buddhist organizations’ disaster relief efforts.
Months before this Japanese disaster, Dr. Edgington talked to us about lessons from rebuilding Kobe after the 1995 Hanshin earthquake.
Our full collection on the 2011 Japan disaster:
2012 Memos part of this Theme:
- Japan’s Soma City One Year after the Disaster (Video Interview with Dr. David W. Edgington) (Memo #138, Video)
- Social Networks and Japan’s 3/11 Disaster (Memo #137, by Daniel P. Aldrich)
2011 Memos part of this Theme:
- Japanese Buddhism After the Earthquake: Memorials, Spiritual Comfort, and Emergency Response (Memo #69, by Jessica Main)
- Former Canadian Ambassador to Japan on the Crisis (Video Interview) (Memo #66, Video interview with Mr. Joseph Caron)
- UBC Japanese Geography Expert – Full Video Interview (Memo #65, Video interview with Dr. David Edgington)
- Lessons from Rebuilding Kobe after the 1995 Hanshin Earthquake (Memo #40, Video interview with Dr. David Edgington)
Other related video clips/articles:
- One Year After: Lessons from Japan’s earthquake (UBC Reports article and video interview with Dr. David W. Edgington, March 2012)
- Dr. Ilan Vertinsky: 1) How Prepared was Japan? and 2) Disaster Response: Japan Earthquake vs. Katrina
See our other Themes