When the Tsunami Cameto Shore -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Cultural Responses to Disaster in Japan -- PART 1: Cultural Responses to the Triple Disaster of March 2011 -- 1 Nature's Blessing, Nature's Wrath: Shinto Responses to the Disasters of 2011 -- 2 Gods, Dragons, Catfish, and Godzilla: Fragments for a History of Religious Views on Natural Disasters in Japan -- 3 Buddhism: The Perfect Religion for Disasters? -- 4 Post-3/11 Literature in Japan -- 5 These Things Here and Now: Poetry in the Wake of 3/11 -- 6 'Shake, Rattle and Roll': Responses to 3/11 - Constructing Community Through Music and the Music Industry -- 7 Learning that Emerges in Times of Trouble: A Few Cases from Japan -- 8 Observations on Geomentality in Japan and New Zealand -- Part 2: Towards a Wider Perspective - Japanese Cultural Responses to Earlier Disasters -- 9 'All Shook Up': Post-religious Responses to Disaster in Murakami Haruki's after the quake -- 10 Disaster and National Identity: The Textual Transformations of Japan Sinks -- 11 Belated Arrival in Political Transition: 1950s Films on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- 12 Hiroshima Rages, Nagasaki Prays: Nagai Takashi's Catholic Response to the Atomic Bombing -- 13 The Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 and Poetry -- 14 Proletarian Writers and the Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 -- 15 The 'Silenced Nexus': Female Mediation in Modern Japanese Literature of Disaster -- Index.