Download or read book Earthquake Children written by Janet Borland and published by Harvard East Asian Monographs. This book was released on 2020 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan's infrastructure of resilience. Janet Borland vividly demonstrates that Japan's contemporary culture of disaster preparedness--and its people's ability to respond calmly in times of emergency--are the results of learned and practiced behaviors inspired by earlier tragedies.