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Japan Earthquake and Recovery

Japan Earthquake
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The March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear plant explosions that followed, are the biggest national emergency Japan has faced since World War II. Follow Asia Society's continuing coverage below.

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Book Excerpt: How Japan's 'National Nightmare' Became Part of Normal Politics
Did the 3/11 quake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown lead to any fundamental change in how Japan is run?
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Photos Show Japanese Town's Slow, Creeping Decline Months After Fukushima
Photographer Toshiya Watanabe captures the gradual decline of his hometown near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after a huge tsunami devastated northeastern Japan.
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Interview: Richard Samuels Says Japan Partisanship Worse After Earthquake
MIT professor Richard Samuels talks to Asia Society about his new book on politics in Japan in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake of March 2011.
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Interview: Bit by Bit, Filmmaker Shares a Crowd-Funded Story of Japan Rebuilding
One chapter at a time, through the power of crowd-funding, Lisa Katayama tells a story of rebuilding lives, and hope, in the tsunami-stricken town of Motoyoshi, Japan.
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A Hip Hop Dance Response to Japan's 2011 Disaster
Watch Japanese contemporary dancer and choreographer KENTARO!! perform his solo piece 'After Raining, It Will Be Sunny,' in an Asia Society India Centre event at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai last month.
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Video: Emperor's Speech Accompanies Unseen Footage of Japan Quake Zone
Haunting, evocative imagery from Japan's disaster area provides a context for the Emperor's address to the nation one year after the tsunami struck.
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James Zumwalt: Lessons from Japan's Calamity
U.S. official in charge of disaster relief after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster acknowledges, "There's always more that can be done."
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Japan: One Year Later (Complete)
A top U.S. official assesses the state of disaster relief and recovery in Japan, one year after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear catastrophe.
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2011: Post Nuclear Tragedy, Three Inspiring Environmental Shifts in Japan
Journalist Simran Sethi discusses how Japan's nuclear disaster demonstrated the resiliency of the Japanese people to respond to the immediate crisis and reframe their relationship to energy consumption.
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Civil Society Reports from Japan (Complete)
NEW YORK, July 21, 2011 — Tatsuaki Kobayashi moderates a discussion with Noboru Hayase, Fukiko Ishii and Tae Namba, all representing key...
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