Features

An EAA Interview with Houghton Freeman
Interview by Lynn Parisi

Catfish, Super Frog, and the End of the World: Earthquakes (and Natural Disasters) in the Japanese Cultural Imagination
by Alex Bates

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the Japanese Nation: Responding to an Urban Calamity of an Unprecedented Nature
by J. Charles Schencking

Living with Risk, Coping with Disasters: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines
by Gregory Bankoff

Ten Years of Extraordinary Change in Indonesia
by Christine Drake

An EAA Interview with Ambassador Alphonse F. La Porta
Interviewed by Michele Ferrier Heryford

Hope for Renewal: Photographs from Indonesia after the Tsunami
Photography by Marco Garcia

The 2004 Tsunami: A Survivor's Story
The narrative of Ari Palawi as recounted to Terance W. Bigalke

Curriculum Materials Review

The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century. Small Farms, Big Cities: Northern Japan and Tokyo
Reviewed by Gil Latz, Joe Narus, and Joel Stewart

Essay

Why Perspective Matters
by Alejandro Echevarria

Book Review Essays

House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese
Reviewed by Emily T. Yeh

Japan in the 21st Century: Environment, Economy, and Society
Reviewed by Ronald Kalafsky

From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor: Who Was Responsible?
Reviewed by Richard H. Minear

Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
Reviewed by Theodore F. Cook

Charting the End of the "Modern" Period. Contemporary Japanese Literature: An Anthology of Fiction, Film, and Other Writing since 1945
Reviewed by Fay Beauchamp

The Asian American Century
Reviewed by James M. Carter

Web Resources

Web Gleanings (Website Listings): Natural Disasters in Asia
by Judith S. Ames