What is it about?
This article explores how Japanese migrants responded to the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 by analysing personal weblogs published by Japanese migrants across the globe.
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Why is it important?
The analysis of their blog posts demonstrates the collective response of Japanese overseas citizens to a crisis in their homeland.
Perspectives
As well as shedding light on these responses, the data further serve to crystallize the way in which Japanese migrants' transnationalism intensifies following homeland disasters.
Dr Atsushi Takeda
Reitaku University
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This page is a summary of: Intensive Transnationalism amongst Japanese Migrants after the Great East Japan Earthquake: Voices from Diasporic Blogs, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, December 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/sena.12162.
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