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Nobody Dies in a Ghost Town: Path Dependence in Japan's 3.11 Disaster and Reconstruction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Oguma Eiji  and
Shi-Lin Loh
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Nearly three years have passed since the tsunami that accompanied the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011. However, no homes stand on the devastated plains of the afflicted area; 110,000 refugees continue living in temporary residences as of August 2013; large numbers of young people have lost hope and are leaving the places they grew up in in search of jobs and a new start. Why are these things happening?

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 44 , November 2013 , e1
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