WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Kimura Yūsuke. Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa's Deluge: Two Novellas of Japan's 3/11 Disaster Translated by Doug Slaymaker (2018) "Kimura pulls the reader into the irradiated zone where residents struggle for justice against a government that treats them as disposable as the cattle they illegally tend. Sacred Cesium asks tough questions: What will … [Read more...]
March 11 Event: “The Nuclear Disaster, Tsunami, and Manga: The Representation of Recent Disasters in Japanese Popular Culture:” Video
Video is now available from the March 11, 2016 event “The Nuclear Disaster, Tsunami, and Manga: The Representation of Recent Disasters in Japanese Popular Culture." The event featured guest speaker Yukari Fujimoto, Professor of Japanese Studies, Meiji University and Visiting Scholar, Columbia University; and moderator Hikari Hori, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages … [Read more...]
