Author: Jishin Gakkai
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan
Author: Jishin Gakkai
Publisher:
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Publisher:
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Earthquake Nation
Author: Greg Clancey
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520932293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Accelerating seismic activity in late Meiji Japan climaxed in the legendary Great Nobi Earthquake of 1891, which rocked the main island from Tokyo to Osaka, killing thousands. Ironically, the earthquake brought down many "modern" structures built on the advice of foreign architects and engineers, while leaving certain traditional, wooden ones standing. This book, the first English-language history of modern Japanese earthquakes and earthquake science, considers the cultural and political ramifications of this and other catastrophic events on Japan’s relationship with the West, with modern science, and with itself. Gregory Clancey argues that seismicity was both the Achilles’ heel of Japan's nation-building project—revealing the state’s western-style infrastructure to be surprisingly fragile—and a new focus for nativizing discourses which credited traditional Japanese architecture with unique abilities to ride out seismic waves. Tracing his subject from the Meiji Restoration to the Great Kant Earthquake of 1923 (which destroyed Tokyo), Clancey shows earthquakes to have been a continual though mercurial agent in Japan’s self-fashioning; a catastrophic undercurrent to Japanese modernity. This innovative and absorbing study not only moves earthquakes nearer the center of modern Japan change—both materially and symbolically—but shows how fundamentally Japan shaped the global art, science, and culture of natural disaster.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520932293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Accelerating seismic activity in late Meiji Japan climaxed in the legendary Great Nobi Earthquake of 1891, which rocked the main island from Tokyo to Osaka, killing thousands. Ironically, the earthquake brought down many "modern" structures built on the advice of foreign architects and engineers, while leaving certain traditional, wooden ones standing. This book, the first English-language history of modern Japanese earthquakes and earthquake science, considers the cultural and political ramifications of this and other catastrophic events on Japan’s relationship with the West, with modern science, and with itself. Gregory Clancey argues that seismicity was both the Achilles’ heel of Japan's nation-building project—revealing the state’s western-style infrastructure to be surprisingly fragile—and a new focus for nativizing discourses which credited traditional Japanese architecture with unique abilities to ride out seismic waves. Tracing his subject from the Meiji Restoration to the Great Kant Earthquake of 1923 (which destroyed Tokyo), Clancey shows earthquakes to have been a continual though mercurial agent in Japan’s self-fashioning; a catastrophic undercurrent to Japanese modernity. This innovative and absorbing study not only moves earthquakes nearer the center of modern Japan change—both materially and symbolically—but shows how fundamentally Japan shaped the global art, science, and culture of natural disaster.
Transactions of the Seismological Society of Japan
Author: Jishin Gakkai (Japan)
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Catalogue of the Periodical Publications in the Library of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Proceedings of the Physical Society
Author: Physical Society of London
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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The Geological Record
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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A list of publications on geology, mineralogy, and palæontology.
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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A list of publications on geology, mineralogy, and palæontology.
Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII
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Publisher: Global Oriental
ISBN: 9004218033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions). Contents include the writings of the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley; British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton; philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw; the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan; and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subjects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.
Publisher: Global Oriental
ISBN: 9004218033
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions). Contents include the writings of the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley; British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton; philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw; the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan; and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subjects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.