Buddhist Responses to the 3.11 Disasters in Japan

Graf, Tim

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“…An interfaith chaplaincy and grief care program (Kokoro no Sōdanshitsu [Counseling Room for the Heart]) was set up in cooperation with scholars and doctors. In collaboration with the program, a Buddhist priest launched a mobile counseling service (Café de Monk) in the affected area (Graf, 2016;Taniyama, 2014). The academic and educational sectors also responded with their broad range of expertise to the disaster.…”

Section: Governing and Media Usage In Japan After The Disasters In 1995 And 2011mentioning

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Governing and societal media for building resilience: A sociocybernetic study of the disaster recovery in Japan

Takahashi

2019

Current Sociology

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How can society deal with a severe disaster that entails wide-ranging societal problems? This article aims to elaborate a sociocybernetic approach to describe and improve collective efforts which are tackling such problems. First, a concept of ‘governing’ will be introduced to describe efforts of not only public actors but also private actors. A case study of recovery efforts which were made in response to the large-scale disasters in 1995 and 2011 in Japan shows that governing can and needs to be empowered by the media. Focusing on one disaster-hit area in Japan, this article examines in what way and to what extent the media (the mass media and the Internet) supported local non-profit organizations (NPOs) working for their communities. The supportive use of the media will be defined as ‘societal media’. Making use of these key terms (governing and societal media), this article concludes that combining a variety of efforts with the supportive use of media is an essential component of building resilience in contemporary society.

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Section: Governing and Media Usage In Japan After The Disasters In 1995 And 2011mentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing and societal media for building resilience: A sociocybernetic study of the disaster recovery in Japan

Takahashi

2019

Current Sociology

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Sōjiji: Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple, by Joshua A. Irizarry

Borup

2023

J. Relig. Japan

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Research Note: Documenting Religious Responses to 3.11 on Film

Graf¹

2016

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This research note discusses the challenges of post-disaster filmmaking and introduces two short films about religious responses to the 11 March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan that were produced to accompany this special issue. The first clip presents perspectives on the cherry blossom festival at Jōnenji, a Pure Land Buddhist temple that functioned as an evacuation center in the tsunami-stricken city of Kesennuma. Volunteers started the festival in 2012, and it has since grown into a major annual event that, besides commemorating the tragic events of 3.11, provides an important opportunity for recreation. The second vignette examines the training of rinshō shūkyōshi, literally "clinical religious specialists," or "interfaith chaplains," at Tohoku University in Sendai. As the video shows, this program, which comprises a distinctive collaboration of religious and nonreligious aid providers, has contributed to a shifting image of religion in Japan's public sphere. Instructors and students may find the audiovisual component useful in discussing different intersections of religion and relief in contemporary Japan and as a means of exploring practical and theoretical dimensions of religious responses to disaster. The vignettes can be streamed or downloaded for free from Vimeo. Vignette One (Jōnenji): https://vimeo.com/141396760 and Vignette Two (Interfaith Chaplains

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Buddhist Responses to the 3.11 Disasters in Japan

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Governing and societal media for building resilience: A sociocybernetic study of the disaster recovery in Japan

Governing and societal media for building resilience: A sociocybernetic study of the disaster recovery in Japan

Sōjiji: Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple, by Joshua A. Irizarry

Research Note: Documenting Religious Responses to 3.11 on Film

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