Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan write by Jeff Kingston. This book was released on 2012-03-12. Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled out that Fukushima had experienced meltdowns in three reactors. These tragic catastrophes claimed some 20,000 lives, initially displacing some 500,000 people and overwhelming Japan's formidable disaster preparedness. This book brings together the analysis and insights of a group of distinguished experts on Japan to examine what happened, how various institutions and actors responded and what lessons can be drawn from Japan’s disaster. The contributors, many of whom experienced the disaster first hand, assess the wide-ranging repercussions of this catastrophe and how it is already reshaping Japanese culture, politics, energy policy, and urban planning.
Japan's Lost Decade
Japan's Lost Decade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan's Lost Decade write by Gary Saxonhouse. This book was released on 2004-03-05. Japan's Lost Decade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the origins of Japan’s current economic crisis and assesses the country’s prospects for recovery. An exploration of the origins and consequences of Japan’s current economic crisis. Examines the collapse of the equity and real estate market bubbles in the late 1980s. Analyses the failure of Japanese monetary and fiscal policies to reverse the ensuing economic decline. Evaluates unorthodox options available to policy makers that might enable Japan to recover from its ‘lost decade’. Suggests that Japan’s prospects for economic recovery are still uncertain.
From Crisis to Recovery
From Crisis to Recovery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Crisis to Recovery write by Zongxian Yu. This book was released on 2001. From Crisis to Recovery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Readership: Professors and graduate students in economics and economists working in financial institutions such as the World Bank, IMF, ADB and commercial banks.
Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster
Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster write by Paul Bacon. This book was released on 2014-06-27. Human Security and Japan’s Triple Disaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context. This book applies the human security approach to the specific case of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, which has come to be known as Japan's ‘triple disaster’. This left more than 15,000 people dead and was the most expensive natural disaster in recorded history. The book identifies the many different forms of human insecurity that were produced or exacerbated within Japan by the triple disaster. Each chapter adds to the contemporary literature by identifying the vulnerability of Japanese social groups and communities, and examining how they collectively seek to prevent, respond to and recover from disaster. Emphasis is given to analysis of the more encouraging signs of human empowerment that have occurred. Contributors draw on a wide range of perspectives, from disciplines such as: disaster studies, environmental studies, gender studies, international relations, Japanese studies, philosophy and sociology. In considering this Japanese case study in detail, the book demonstrates to researchers, postgraduate students, policy makers and practitioners how the concept of human security can be practically applied at a policy level to the domestic affairs of developed countries, countering the tendency to regard human security as exclusively for developing states.
Japan's Financial Crisis and Its Parallels to U.S. Experience
Japan's Financial Crisis and Its Parallels to U.S. Experience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Japan's Financial Crisis and Its Parallels to U.S. Experience write by Ryōichi Mikitani. This book was released on 2000. Japan's Financial Crisis and Its Parallels to U.S. Experience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japan is only one of many industrialized economies to suffer a financial crisis in the past 15 years, but it has suffered the most from its crisis--as measured in lost output and investment opportunities, and in the direct costs of clean-up. Comparing the response of Japanese policy in the 1990s to that of US monetary and financial policy to the American Savings and Loan Crisis of the late 1980s sheds light on the reasons for this outcome. This volume was created by bringing together several leading academics from the United States and Japan--plus former senior policymakers from both countries--to discuss the challenges to Japanese financial and monetary policy in the 1990s. The papers address in turn both the monetary and financial aspects of the crisis, and the discussants bring together broad themes across the two countries' experiences. As the papers in this Special Report demonstrate, while the Japanese government's policy response to its banking crisis in the 1990s was slow in comparison to that of the US government a decade earlier, the underlying dynamics were similar. A combination of mismanaged partial deregulation and regulatory forebearance gave rise to the crisis and allowed it to deepen, and only the closure of some banks and injection of new capital into others began the resolution. The Bank of Japan's monetary policy from the late 1980s onward, however, was increasingly out of step with US or other developed country norms. In particular, the Bank of Japan's limited response to deflation after being granted independence in 1998 stands out as a dangerous and unusual stance.
