Blending history, science, and gripping storytelling, Strong in the Rain brings the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and its immediate aftermath to life through the eyes of the men and women who experienced it. A beautifully written, moving account of how the Japanese endured the earthquake's horrific consequences.
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'Birmingham and McNeill have created a compassionate and important book which both gives valuable information about one of the most important events of the last few years, and helps call to account both the Japanese government and TEPCO...Strongly recommended.' -The Book Bag
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Basingstoke
Großbritannien
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Maße
Höhe: 243 mm
Breite: 159 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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978-0-230-34186-9 (9780230341869)
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LUCY BIRMINGHAM is TIME magazine's Tokyo-based reporter and covered the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. Since coming to Japan in the mid-1980s, her work has appeared in Bloomberg News, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, and U.S. News and World Report. A board member of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, she lives in Tokyo. DAVID MCNEILL writes regularly for the Independent, the Irish Times, and Japan Times, while teaching at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. His work has appeared in Newsweek, New Scientist, The Face, Marie Claire, New Statesman, the International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, on the BBC, RTE and CBC and in many other outlets. He is a board member of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and chair of The Foreign Press in Japan. He lives in Japan.
Prologue March 11, 2:46 p.m. - The Quake March 11, 3:10 p.m. - The Tsunami March 11, 3:15 p.m. - Close the Gate! March 12, 3:36 p.m. - No. 1 Reactor Blows March 13, 1:52 p.m. - No. 3 Reactor Radiation Overload March 15, 10:22 a.m. - Radiation Levels Critical March 16, 4:30 p.m. - The Emperor's Speech March 18 - 'Flyjin' March 20 - Departures March 27-April 6 - Help us Please! March 28 - 'Tohoku Damashi' Lives in Limbo
