Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-q99xh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-29T06:04:00.628Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan. By J. Charles Schencking . New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xxii, 374 pp. ISBN: 9780231162180 (cloth; also available as e-book). - Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923. By Gennifer Weisenfeld . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xv, 393 pp. ISBN: 9780520271951 (cloth; also available as e-book).

Review products

The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan. By J. Charles Schencking . New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xxii, 374 pp. ISBN: 9780231162180 (cloth; also available as e-book).

Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923. By Gennifer Weisenfeld . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xv, 393 pp. ISBN: 9780520271951 (cloth; also available as e-book).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2016

Mark Jones*
Affiliation:
Central Connecticut State University
Get access

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Reviews—Japan
Copyright
Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

11 Dower, John, The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s (Boston: MFA Publications, 2012)Google Scholar.