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Ghosts of the tsunami death and life in Japan's disaster zone

On March 11, 2011, a 120-foot-high tsunami smashed into the northeast coast of Japan, leaving more than eighteen thousand people dead. It was Japan's single greatest loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award winning foreign correspondent, lived thr...

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Main Author: Lloyd Parry, Richard (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Picador, 2018.
Subjects:
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.
Tsunamis > Japan > History > 21st century.
Japan > History > Heisei period, 1989-
Summary: On March 11, 2011, a 120-foot-high tsunami smashed into the northeast coast of Japan, leaving more than eighteen thousand people dead. It was Japan's single greatest loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. Ghosts of the Tsunami is the intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the perspectives of those who lived through it. -- Adapted from book jacket.
Physical Description: 320 pages
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 1250192811
9781250192813
Author Notes: Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor of The Times and a foreign correspondent, based in Tokyo since 1995. He was born in 1969 and is an Oxford graduate. He has reported from all over Asia and in numerous war zones including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor and others. He is the author of In The Time of Madness: Indonesia on the Edge of Chaos, People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman, and Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone, for which he won the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize.

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