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This book is a collection of scholarly papers on disaster and justice written from interdisciplinary and multifaceted perspectives by researchers from Japan and abroad specializing in public policy, science and technology studies, law, gender studies, sociology, psychology, cultural anthropology, urban planning, tourism studies, architecture, geography, and Japanese studies. Based on more than ten years on meticulous investigation and research since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the book sheds light on issues in disaster response and policy regarding the earthquake, Fukushima nuclear accident, and tsunami damage to coastal areas, as well as the difficulties associated with long-term reconstruction.
 
The authors range from early-career researchers to senior scholars from various countries. Some have been conducting fieldwork-based research in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima since before the Great East Japan Earthquake, while others began their research in its aftermath. Drawing on the perspectives of their respective specialties, the authors examine changes and conflicts that have occurred in disaster-affected areas since the earthquake as well as the social disparities that have resulted from ongoing impacts of disaster and reconstruction from various angles.
 
The book clarifies that the term “natural disaster” is misused, pointing out that large-scale disasters affecting human society are often predictable and, thus, that we need to focus on the prevention of catastrophic damage. Each chapter analyzes justice and injustice in disasters and reconstruction from the perspectives of groups who are particularly vulnerable during disasters such as women, children, youth, and foreign residents.
 
The book is divided into four parts. Part I examines the situation after the Fukushima nuclear accident through topics including reconstruction policies, class action lawsuits, plaintiffs’ narratives, and nuclear energy policy. Part II covers the connections between the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami damage and issues such as domestic violence against women, migrant women, nuclear disaster, and certification of disaster-related deaths. Part III focuses on civic activism, mainly carried out after the nuclear accident, related to the nuclear accident, mothers’ efforts to get thyroid cancer screening for their children, and the struggles and transformation of young people affected in childhood as described by the young people themselves. Part IV examines gathering places in the context of the post-earthquake reconstruction process. It depicts places of gathering in the wake of the disaster and community rebuilding, changes in coastal landscapes and reconstruction, and impacts on tourism in affected areas. The final chapter discusses the difficulties of pursuing justice after disaster and the quest for critical disaster research. One of the notable features of the book is its examination of post-disaster circumstances through various lenses of justice including those of disaster justice, environmental justice, social justice, epistemic injustice, and structural injustice.
 
In Chapter 5, the author investigates support for domestic violence survivors in the disaster-affected areas through interviews with NPOs and other private organizations. The chapter uses Young’s theory of justice to discuss the social structural processes underlying the increase and changes in domestic violence around the time of the earthquake and interactions between pioneering support shelters and domestic violence survivors. It examines the structural injustices towards women revealed by the disaster and the support activities of women’s shelters seeking to remedy these injustices. The author argues that the women’s shelters’ efforts can contribute to expanding society’s sense of responsibility to ensure justice for all.
 
It is the authors’ hope that this book will be of use to researchers and students studying disasters, justice, civic activism, and related topics.
 

(Written by OGAWA Mariko, Project Associate Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies / 2024)