2018-01-19

review of book about 3.11 disaster & now, author Richard Lloyd Parry

This book review might interest Senseionline readers or students engaged in the social geography of Japanese life.
TITLE: Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
amazon link, https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Tsunami-Death-Japans-Disaster/dp/0374253978/ref=sr_1_1 

review, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/16/ghosts-of-tsunami-japan-disaster-richard-lloyd-parry-review

Related to this topic are the short films by Toko Shiiki, now based in Ypsilanti, Michigan, but with ongoing projects in Fukushima:

https://youtu.be/wHdcnA_yIds and https://youtu.be/U35cXKd--w4 and https://youtu.be/-X70pvWK4Lw

Her Fukushima colleagues also sent this link with a youtube story embedded that features the radiation measurement work by (now emeritus) Professor Ryuo Hayano, http://josen.env.go.jp/movie_event/ch_japan_04.html