Handbook of Disaster Studies in Japan

This volume is a critical interrogation of the concept, meaning and experience of disaster in 21st-century Japan. Throughout the chapters, a central theme and guiding theoretical perspective is the recognition of the human element in disasters. The evolution of disaster studies in Japan over the past three decades--and the contextual disaster policy changes and societal processes--shows that the empirical terrain for studying disasters is changing, animating the high interest in the sociology of disaster as an interdisciplinary field.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048562279
• ISBN13: 9789048562275
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"