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Japan and the Tsunami
Focus Asia this spring takes as its topic the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami that on Friday 11 March this year devastated the seaboard of North-Eastern Honshu. The lectures presented at Focus Asia set the disaster into a context, and examine the consequences of the tragedy.
Drawing upon her extensive research regarding the tsunami that struck Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India on 26 December 2004 and resulted in massive loss of life, Dr. Monica Lindberg-Falk reviews the resilience demonstrated by different societies when coping with the aftermath of the disaster. In the following two presentations in the morning session Dr. Ingemar Ottosson deals with the recurrent tragedies of earthquakes and tsunamis through Japan’s history, and Dr. Mayumi Saegusa with the social consequences of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
In the afternoon presentations Dr. Monica Braw, who has written extensively upon Hiroshima, will discuss the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Power Plant, and Professor Marie Söderberg, Sweden’s leading economist working upon contemporary Japanese economics, will present and analyse the enormous and far-reaching political and economic consequences that can occur as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The presentations, which will be given in English, will provide clear and relevant insights into the Great East Japan Earthquake and its importance to contemporary Japanese society, as well as reflecting upon its wider effects upon the entire global community.
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Publisher: Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier
Last modified 18 Apr 2012
Venue: Hotel Lundia (Sal Knuten)
Programme (PDF 229 Kb - new window)
The lectures are open to the public and entry is free of charge.