Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Epigraph

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Maps

Epigraph

Foreword

PART ONE

Tsunami

1 Tsunami

2 Bending Adversity

PART TWO

Double-bolted Land

3 Shimaguni

4 Leaving Asia

PART THREE

Decades Found and Lost

5 The Magic Teapot

6 After the Fall

PART FOUR

Life After Growth

7 Japan as Number Three

8 Samurai with a Quiff

9 Life After Growth

10 The Promised Road

11 From Behind the Screen

PART FIVE

Adrift

12 Asia Ex-Japan

13 Abnormal Nation

PART SIX

After the Tsunami

14 Fukushima Fallout

15 Citizens

16 After the Tsunami

 

Afterword

Photographs

Notes

Select Bibliography

Glossary

Acknowledgements

Index