Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Strong Nation, Stone Nation 2. Earthquakes 3. The Seismologists 4. The National Essence 5. A Great Earthquake 6. Japan as Earthquake Nation 7. Japanese Architecture after NQbi 8. The Great KantQ Earthquake and the Submergence of the Earthquake Nation Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Gregory Clancey, Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore, is editor, with Alan Chan and Loy Hui-chieh, of Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (2002) and editor, with M.R. Smith, of Major Problems in the History of American Technology (1998).

Reviews

"It is a significant contribution to the scholarship on Meiji Japan and on Japanese architectural, technological and scientific history." East Asian Science, Technology, And Medicine