Cover -- Contents -- Translator's Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. A Megaquake in Tokyo -- 2. Problems That Will Emerge Following a Megaquake -- 3. Trench-Type Megaquakes -- 4. Tsunamis -- 5. Disaster Prevention and Reduction -- 6. What the Government of Japan Is Doing Now and Should Continue to Do in the Future -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y
Summary
In March 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of northern Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and damaging a nearby nuclear reactor. Nearly twenty thousand people were killed or went missing, and many areas have yet to rebuild. Megaquake: How Japan and the World Should Respond, by the prolific and award-winning writer Tetsuo Takashima five years before this disaster, appears here for the first time in English. This edition of Megaquake has been updated with additional information, including a new chapter coauthored by Robert D. Eldridge, translator and one of the key Am
