![]() ![]() Indeed, when the tides of the devastating tsunami ebbed, the unnatural disaster of cleaning up Japan’s pulverized and aerosolized built environment remained. Along with an enduring nuclear legacy, it also left an estimated 25 millions tons of rubble, much of it contaminated with asbestos and other carcinogenic toxins. The quake was 9.0 on the Richter scale and it unleashed a tsunami that swept away entire communities. on March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake devastated northeastern Japan and caused one of Earth’s most dangerous nuclear catastrophes. OSU ASC Drupal 8 America/New_York publicĪdd to Calendar 17:30:00 19:00:00 IJS Lecture/Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: Brett Walker, “Natural and Unnatural Disasters: 3/11, 9/11, Asbestos, and the Unmaking of Japan’s Modern World” “Natural and Unnatural Disasters: 3/11, 9/11, Asbestos, and the Unmaking of Japan’s Modern World”Flyer: Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture Flyer (March 4, 2016).pdfAbstract: At 2:46 p.m. Hagerty Hall, Room 180 (1775 College Rd.) Reischauer Visiting Professor at Harvard University where he is teaching a seminar course on the theme of science, medicine and environment in Japan. For the academic year 2015-2016, Professor Walker is Edwin O. Department of Education Title VI, and Japan Foundation. He has been awarded many research grants from funding agencies that include the U.S. He has three monographs in progress including one on the environment and disasters in modern Japan in the context of a comparative history. His recent publication is A Concise History of Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2015) which is being translated into Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese. His 2010 monograph, Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan was awarded George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Books in Environmental History by the American Society for Environmental History. Professor Walker has authored six books, two of which are translated into Japanese and one into Chinese. He has widely published and gave numerous lectures and seminars on these subjects at conferences and universities worldwide. His research and teaching repertoire includes environmental history and the history of science and medicine. His research expertise is on early modern and modern Japan as well as comparative world history. Malone Professor of History at Montana State University, Bozeman. Walker is Regents Professor and Michael P. ![]() This paper investigates asbestos in the construction and, more importantly, destruction of Japan’s built environment, with a comparison of the destruction and debris cause by the 9.11 terrorist attacks (2001) against the World Trade Center and the 3.11 triple disaster (2011) in northeastern Japan.Just as World Trade Center dust has caused widespread and deadly health challenges for New York’s first responders, the dust caused by Japan’s 3.11 triple disaster contains many of the same toxic ingredients, including asbestos.Bio: Brett L. In the postwar period, asbestos offered a powerful solution to fires in sprawling built environments, until it became closely connected to pulmonary diseases, including lung cancers. Asbestos was a critical fiber in the construction of Japan’s modern built environment because of the culturally engrained fear of fire. ![]() began phasing out asbestos in the 1970s and banned most of its use in the 1980s, as did the United Kingdom in 1985, Japan continued to use chrysotile asbestos until 2004. Now, every time a backhoe or shovel digs into this rubble, asbestos fibers are released into the environment to threaten human health.Japan’s history of asbestos use contrasts with many other industrialized nations, including the United States. ![]() “Natural and Unnatural Disasters: 3/11, 9/11, Asbestos, and the Unmaking of Japan’s Modern World”Flyer: Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture Flyer (March 4, 2016).pdfAbstract: At 2:46 p.m. Add to Calendar 18:30:00 20:00:00 IJS Lecture/Brad Richardson Memorial Lecture: Brett Walker, “Natural and Unnatural Disasters: 3/11, 9/11, Asbestos, and the Unmaking of Japan’s Modern World” ![]()
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