Summary of the Book
This webpage shows the JDA collections related to Keiichi Sato's book, Disaster Responses and Modern History (2024, Kyoritsu Shuppan).
Disaster Responses and Modern History is a book the author drafted while visiting the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, which operates the Japan Disasters Digital Archive, from September 2021 to August 2022.
The paper "Japan Disasters Digital Archive: Its Evolution and Future Prospects" by Andrew Gordon & Ryo Morimoto, which also presents examples of educational and research activities using JDA, suggested using JDA as a "My Archive" using the collection function. In Disaster Responses and Modern History, Sato worked on building "My Archive" by using JDA information, posting collected web information, etc., and organizing them into collections by sections or chapters.
Within each collection, Sato provides an overview of each chapter. The information referenced, such as information on the Internet, can be easily accessed by simply clicking on them, eliminating the need to type the URLs in the footnotes or references.
Most web information registered on JDA is also archived in the Internet Archive, so even information that disappeared from original sites can be read at any time.
Table of Contents and JDA Collections
Chapter 1: Prologue
Part 1: Descriptive Frameworks
Chapter 2: Historical World Catastrophes
Chapter 3: Modern Japan and Disaster Response History
Chapter 4: Postwar Japan and the Disaster Response History
4.1 From Postwar Reconstruction to the Bubble Economy
4.2 Sidelined Disaster Response History
4.3 The Lost Decades
Chapter 5: The Great East Japan Earthquake and the End of the Heisei Era
Part 2: Analytical Frameworks
Chapter 6: What Was Described in the Media about Great East Japan Disaster
6.1 Google and JDA (Google) (JDA)
6.2 Newspaper
Chapter 7: What Did the U.S. and Japanese Experts Say?
Chapter 8: Relation of Disaster to Ideas and Culture
Contact
Any inquiries about this study can be sent to: Keiichi Sato (satok @ isc.senshu-u.ac.jp)
Professor of Disaster Management and Policy Studies, Senshu University