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Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 18681930,New
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Accelerating seismic activity in late Meiji Japan climaxed in the legendary Great Nobi Earthquake of 1891, which rocked the main island from Tokyo to Osaka, killing thousands. Ironically, the earthquake brought down many modern structures built on the advice of foreign architects and engineers, while leaving certain traditional, wooden ones standing. This book, the first Englishlanguage history of modern Japanese earthquakes and earthquake science, considers the cultural and political ramifications of this and other catastrophic events on Japans relationship with the West, with modern science, and with itself. Gregory Clancey argues that seismicity was both the Achilles heel of Japan's nationbuilding projectrevealing the states westernstyle infrastructure to be surprisingly fragileand a new focus for nativizing discourses which credited traditional Japanese architecture with unique abilities to ride out seismic waves. Tracing his subject from the Meiji Restoration to the Great Kant Earthquake of 1923 (which destroyed Tokyo), Clancey shows earthquakes to have been a continual though mercurial agent in Japans selffashioning; a catastrophic undercurrent to Japanese modernity. This innovative and absorbing study not only moves earthquakes nearer the center of modern Japan changeboth materially and symbolicallybut shows how fundamentally Japan shaped the global art, science, and culture of natural disaster.
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