Japan: The Precarious Future

by Frank Baldwin

Book Overview

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan's northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world's third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and the global recession following the US-driven financial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479851450
• ISBN13: 9781479851454
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"