Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 One Flood, Two ‘Saviours’: Takebe Ayatari’s Changing Discourse on the Kanpō Floods of 1742

Chapter 3 Writing Shanghai, the Atomic Bomb, and Incest: Homelessness and Stigmatized Womanhood of Hayashi Kyōko

Chapter 4 Resilience of Communities Affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Restoration of Their Local Festivals

Chapter 6 The Anthropologist as Both Disaster Victim and Disaster Researcher: Reflections and Advocacy

Chapter 7 Interpretation of Development and Representation of Disasters in Japan’s Foreign Aid Narrative

Chapter 8 ‘The Confidence to Know I Can Survive’: Resilience and Recovery in Post-quake Christchurch

Chapter 9 Interpreters at the Front Line: Some Reflections on the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake

Chapter 10 The Challenge, the Project, and the Politics: Lessons from Six Years of the UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive