Fukushima - The Triple Disaster and Its Triple Lessons:

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Chris Harwood University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Graduate Student The article system in English: Implications for the Japanese ELT classroom     Stevienna de Saille The University of Sheffield, Politics, Faculty Member Fukushima - The Triple Disaster and Its Triple Lessons: What can be learned about regulation, planning, and communication in an unfolding emergency? On 11 March, 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the Northeastern coast of the Japanese main island of Honshu. Although reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant shut down as expected, the 15m tsunami which followed caused a loss of power which disrupted the cooling systems. Over the next few days, four of the six reactors experienced catastrophic events, requiring the evacuation of plant personnel and residents of nearby villages in a 20km radius. Nuclear contamination has continued to hinder clean-up and reconstruction efforts in Fukushima prefecture, one of the three...     Alicia Volk University of Maryland, Art History and Archaeology, Faculty Member Onchi Kōshirō, Nihon no yūshū 日本の憂愁 (Melancholy of Japan, 1955) Visual and cultural analysis of Nihon no yūshū 日本の憂愁 (1955), a posthumous book featuring prints, poems and other texts by the artist Onchi Kōshirō. The book is part of the Pulverer Collection of Japanese illustrated books of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and is featured on The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book website. My commentary, along with a complete set of readable images of the book, may be found here: http://pulverer.si.edu/node/461/title/1.     Motoi Katsumata Meisei University (Tokyo), Humanities, Faculty Member Monks as Advocates of Filial Piety: The History of Buddhist Kōshiden in the Early Edo Period     Motoi Katsumata Meisei University (Tokyo), Humanities, Faculty Member Filial Adult or Filial Child? The Age Factor in Issuing Commendations for Filial Behavior in Modern and Postmodern Japan     Tom Gill Meiji Gakuin University, International Studies, Faculty Member Reasons to be Cheerful about the Role of Japanese Anthropology in a Globalizing Discipline My aim in this brief paper, written in response to a lecture by Gordon Mathews at a symposium held in Tokyo by the Japanese Association of Cultural Anthropology in December 2015 on "The Internationalization/globalization of Cultural Anthropology and Japan," is to sound a note of optimism regarding Japanese anthropology. Unlike Mathews, I do not think Japanese anthropology is being ignored, and I do think there is something distinctive about anthropology as a discipline and about the way it is practiced in Japan. I think we should recognize that we have something very valuable here and we...