Japan crisis evokes comparisons to its pop culture disaster narratives, historic events

Japan crisis evokes comparisons to its pop culture disaster narratives, historic events
In postwar books and films, the nation has imagined national apocalypse from earthquake, tsunami and nuclear threat. Recent events echo its pop culture and World War II-era history. Like Hollywood in the 1970s, with its queasy procession of upside-down ships, crippled airplanes and towering infernos, postwar Japanese popular culture has had a taste for disaster.
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