Dealing with Crisis The Japanese Experience and Beyond Edited by J. Babb and Takashi Iida, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan Reflecting on the depth of the experience with crises, this innovative book demonstrates what the world can learn from insights into crises from the Japanese perspective. Taking an institutionalist approach with a strong historical precedent, leading scholars in the social sciences and law explore how better to deal with foreseeable and unforeseen crises.

Contents:

Preface xii
1 Dealing with crisis: the Japanese experience and beyond 1
J. Babb and Takashi Iida

PART I HOW PEOPLE THINK ABOUT CRISIS
2 How can we prepare for something we don't want to think
about? Disaster readiness and negative capability 10
Shin Arita
3 Bricolage by institutions: towards the recreation of norms
and organizations 27
Takashi Iida

PART II THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE
AND ASSOCIATED CRISES
4 Transforming a crisis into a turning point: the response of
businesses to the Great East Japan Earthquake 47
Naofumi Nakamura
5 Electric power crisis and crisis response after the Great
East Japan Earthquake 67
Toshihiro Matsumura

PART III LAW AND INSTITUTIONS IN THE
RESPONSE TO CRISIS
6 Contractual crisis and the doctrine of change of
circumstances: the results and contexts of the reform of
contract law in Japan 86
Hiroyasu Ishikawa
7 State of emergency clauses in constitutional law 107
Tomonobu Hayashi
8 Missing the point: facts and rhetoric about Japan's fiscal crisis 130
Takeshi Fujitani
9 The crisis of war and the relocation of key facilities:
a comparative historical study of Japan and China 154
Tomoo Marukawa
10 Japan-China relations "in crisis," and sentiment toward China 175
Asei Itō