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Title:

Japan's 2011 natural disasters and nuclear meltdown / Myra Immell, book editor.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Greenhaven Pressa part of Gale, Cengage Learning,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

1 online resource (198 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.

Subject:

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.

Other Authors:

Immell, Myra,.
Gale Group.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

chapter 1. Historical background on Japan's 2011 natural disasters and nuclear meltdown -- chapter 2. Controversies surrounding Japan's 2011 natural disasters and nuclear meltdown -- chapter 3. Personal narratives.

Summary:

Offers multiple perspectives on momentous events. This volume provides an overview of the massive earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011 followed minutes later by a powerful tsunami, and the next day by an explosion that rocked a nuclear power plant and caused a leak in a reactor.

Series:

Gale virtual reference library
Perspectives on modern world history
Perspectives on modern world history

ISBN:

0737770562 (electronic book)
9780737770568 (electronic book)

Locations:

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)