THE PENGUIN PRESS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 USA • Canada • UK • Ireland • Australia • New Zealand • India • South Africa • China penguin.com A Penguin Random House Company Published by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014 Copyright © 2014 by David Pilling Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd. Photograph credits appear here. ISBN 978-0-69814121-6 Version_1 To Ingrid, Dylan and Travis And to my Mum and Dad With love and gratitude Contents Title Page Copyright Epigraph List of Illustrations List of Maps Maps Epigraph Foreword PART ONE Tsunami 1 Tsunami 2 Bending Adversity PART TWO Double-bolted Land 3 Shimaguni 4 Leaving Asia PART THREE Decades Found and Lost 5 The Magic Teapot 6 After the Fall PART FOUR Life After Growth 7 Japan as Number Three 8 Samurai with a Quiff 9 Life After Growth 10 The Promised Road 11 From Behind the Screen PART FIVE Adrift 12 Asia Ex-Japan 13 Abnormal Nation PART SIX After the Tsunami 14 Fukushima Fallout 15 Citizens 16 After the Tsunami Afterword Photographs Notes Select Bibliography Glossary Acknowledgements Index List of Illustrations 1. One of Commodore Perry’s Black Ships (copyright © Denver Post/Getty Images) 2. Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835–1901) (copyright © Keio University) 3. Citizens of Edo take their revenge on Onamazu 4. The tsunami sweeping into the northeast coast of Japan (copyright © Reuters) 5. Ofunato after the tsunami (copyright © Toshiki Senoue) 6. Members of the Self Defence Forces, 2011 (copyright © Toshiki Senoue) 7. Hiromi Shimodate and Yasuko Kimura, Ofunato (copyright © Toshiki Senoue) 8. Hiromi Shimodate and Yasuko Kimura re-establish Hy’s café (copyright © Toshiki Senoue) 9. Seizaburo Sato amid the wreckage of his home (copyright © Toshiki Senoue) 10. The author at Capital Hotel, Rikuzentakata (copyright © Toshiki Senoue) 11. Ippon matsu: Rikuzentakata’s solitary surviving pine (copyright © Toshiki Senoue) 12. Tokyo after the massive fire bombing of 1945 (copyright © Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) 13. Still from Tokyo Story (copyright © 1953/2011 Shochiku Co., Ltd) 14. Chewing gum and chocolates, Yokuska, 1959 (copyright © Shomei Tomatsu, c/o Tepper Takayama Fine Arts) 15. Author Haruki Murakami (copyright © Per Folkver) 16. Cherry blossom against a castle wall in Kumamoto (copyright © Ingrid Aaroe) 17. Tofu hotpot in Kyoto (copyright © Ingrid Aaroe) 18. Foot onsen at a railway station in Kyushu (copyright © Ingrid Aaroe) 19. Ginza at night (copyright © Ken Straiton/Corbis Images) 20. Junichiro Koizumi campaigning, 2005 (copyright © Noboru Hashimoto/Corbis Images) 21. Junichiro Koizumi visiting Graceland with George W. Bush (copyright © Christopher Morris/VII/Corbis Images) 22. A 21-year-old hostess (copyright © Shiho Fukada/Pulitzer Cntr/Panos) 23. Author Natsuo Kirino (copyright © Getty Images) 24. Artist Yayoi Kusama in her New York studio (copyright © Yayoi Kusama) 25. Noriaki Imai (copyright © Reuters) 26. Members of Japan’s Self Defence Forces at the Sapporo Ice Festival (copyright © Reuters) 27. Anti-Japan protestors in Wuhan, Hubei province (copyright © Reuters) 28. Testing for radiation after the Fukushima explosion (copyright © Reuters) 29. Shinzo Abe waves from a tank, 2013 (copyright © AFP/Getty Images) List of Maps 1. Japan and its Neighbours 2. Principal Cities of Japan 3. Northeast Honshu
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