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The reconstruction efforts following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (3/11) have sparked a rediscovery of the concept of kizuna (literally, “bonds between people”). Some Japanese authors, however, are contesting and expanding on this notion as a way of coming to terms with the disaster. Through the analysis of two literary works, I argue that 3/11 literature provides a model for Japan's emotional and physical reconstruction through its resourcefulness and alternative vision of kizuna.

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This chapter examines the role of three kinds of narratives in producing knowledge about the rupture process of the Tohoku earthquake of 2011. I show that each of the three kinds of narratives appears in one of three stages on the way from data recorded of the earthquake to a reconstruction of the rupture process. In the first stage, rupture narratives are produced by computational tools called source models. In the second stage, a set of details that is taken accurately to represent features of the actual rupture process is distilled out of these conflicting rupture narratives through the use of a ‘research narrative’. In the third stage, these distilled details are strung together into an integrating narrative. This integrating narrative is used as a research tool for formulating questions, the pursuit of which has led to the production of further evidence about the rupture process.

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The Post-3/11 Quest for True Kizuna - Shi no Tsubute by Wagō Ryōichi and Kamisama 2011 by Kawakami Hiromi

5 - Reasoning from Narratives and Models: Reconstructing the Tohoku Earthquake

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The Post-3/11 Quest for True Kizuna - Shi no Tsubute by Wagō Ryōichi and Kamisama 2011 by Kawakami Hiromi

5 - Reasoning from Narratives and Models: Reconstructing the Tohoku Earthquake

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