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Chapter 1: Dealing with crisis: the Japanese experience and beyond

J. Babb and Takashi Iida

Part I: How people think about crisis

Chapter 2: How can we prepare for something we don't want to think about? Disaster readiness and negative capability

Shin Arita

Chapter 3: Bricolage by institutions: towards the recreation of norms and organizations

Takashi Iida

Part II: The Great East Japan Earthquake and associated crises

Chapter 4: Transforming a crisis into a turning point: the response of businesses to the Great East Japan Earthquake

Naofumi Nakamura

Chapter 5: Electric power crisis and crisis response after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Toshihiro Matsumura

Part III: Law and institutions in the response to crisis

Chapter 6: Contractual crisis and the doctrine of change of circumstances: the results and contexts of the reform of contract law in Japan

Hiroyasu Ishikawa

Chapter 7: State of emergency clauses in constitutional law

Tomonobu Hayashi

Chapter 8: Missing the point: facts and rhetoric about Japan's fiscal crisis

Takeshi Fujitani

Part IV: International perspectives

Chapter 9: The crisis of war and the relocation of key facilities: a comparative historical study of Japan and China

Tomoo Marukawa

Chapter 10: Japan-China relations "in crisis," and sentiment toward China

Asei Itō