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Risk Governance: The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and ...

Risk Governance: The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and ...

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Rieko Kage began her 2010 book Civic engagement in postwar Japan by showing that levels of recovery after World War II varied tremendously among the 47 prefectures in Japan. Using quantitative data on the number of jobs, hospitals,  ...
Japan: The Precarious Future

Japan: The Precarious Future

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Thanks to Anne Allison, Joonhong Ahn, Frank Baldwin, Christina Davis, Toshihiro Higuchi, Kohta Juraku, Rieko Kage, Naoaki Kashiwabara, Bill Keller, Ellis Krauss, John Mueller, Gregory Noble, Atsushi Sadamatsu, Paul Scalise, Masa ...
Resilience and Recovery in Asian Disasters: Community Ties, ...

Resilience and Recovery in Asian Disasters: Community Ties, ...

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643).2 One final book drives home the power of social networks in rebuilding after crisis and hints at the potential for positive interaction between social networks and the state. Rieko Kage used the wide variation in reconstruction rates among ...
Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan

Electoral Reform and National Security in Japan

Amy Catalinac

I am particularly grateful to Tomomi Nabeshima, Kuniaki Nemoto, Maya Sen, Matthew Blackwell, Daniel M. Smith, Molly Roberts, Dustin Tingley, Ted Gilman, Shin Fujihira, Eunmi Mun, Rieko Kage, Brandon Stewart, Yuki Takagi, Joshua ...
Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated ...

Civic Engagement in Postwar Japan: The Revival of a Defeated ...

Rieko Kage

In the United States, these included Daniel P. Aldrich, Marie Anchordoguy, Adam Berinsky, James Caporaso, Mario Carranza, Christina L. Davis, Michael Desch, Shinju Fujihira, Andrew Gordon, Mary Alice Haddad, Peter Hall, Yoshiko Herrera  ...
Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

Daniel P. Aldrich

... by the Center for Global Partnership, the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, and Purdue University's Discovery Park allowed me to hear feedback from five world-class scholars: Rieko Kage, Sudarshan Rodriguez, Yasuyuki Sawada, ...
Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and ...

Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and ...

Jacques E. C. Hymans

Godinez, Avery Goldstein, Richard Hackman, Gudrun Harrer, Yinan He, Yoshiko Herrera, Ann Hironaka, Atsushi Ishida, Thomas Jonter, Rieko Kage, Gaurav Kampani, Peter Katzenstein, Imad Khadduri, Greg Koblentz, John Lewis, Dan Lynch, ...
Butt Pirates in Space

Butt Pirates in Space

Kage Alan

Strap yourself in and strap something on as you're transported across galaxies and lifetimes by Kiernan Kelly, Kage Alan, Angelia Sparrow, T.C. Blue and Shae Connor.
Butt Ninjas from Hell

Butt Ninjas from Hell

Kage Alan

Kage Alan, JP Barnaby, Ally Blue, TC Blue, Shae Connor, Jevocas Green, Kiernan Kelly and Eden Winters bring you...Butt Ninjas from Hell. You'll Never Hear Them Coming!
Butt Babes in Boyland

Butt Babes in Boyland

Kage Alan

The holidays are a time for visiting with family and friends, and sharing tales of peace, childlike innocence, and good will towards all mankind. These are not those stories.
The A to Z of African-American Television

The A to Z of African-American Television

Kathleen Fearn-Banks

Kage Alan, reviewing the DVD of the production, said, “The people who are interviewed seem genuinely interested in the subject matter and reflect very fondly on those who have influenced their lives and careers, even when the stories have ...
Dear Angela: Remembering My So-called Life

Dear Angela: Remembering My So-called Life

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Similarly, Kage Alan's review at Modamag.com reads, "While the overwhelming majority of the episodes work, two of them are awkward because they rely on things that just go outside the reality of the show, namely the Halloween and ...
Historical Dictionary of African-American Television

Historical Dictionary of African-American Television

Kathleen Fearn-Banks

Kage Alan, reviewing the DVD of the production, said, “The people who are interviewed seem genuinely interested in the subject matter and reflect very fondly on those who have influenced their lives and careers, even when the stories have ...
The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy

The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy

Paul Kane

Kage Alan of Modamag.com felt cheated by the cuts made to the movie: “While it's fantastic to see Kirsty again, the director didn't want to alienate viewers who weren't familiar with the Hellraiser series by giving too much exposition about ...
Andy Stevenson Vs. the Lord of the Loins

Andy Stevenson Vs. the Lord of the Loins

Kage Alan

Armed with his two best friends and recently resurfaced sense of sarcasm, Andy prepares to defend his fledgling relationship with the half-Asian and wholly domineering Alan by doing battle with the most fearsome and evil ho to come along ...
Butt Riders on the Range

Butt Riders on the Range

Kage Alan

The fourth time's the charm as the Butt-Thology authors saddle up, ride their men hard, and put 'em away wet. Butt Riders on the Range...the bulls aren't the only ones being grabbed by the horns!
Philip

Philip

Milton E. Ford

THANK YOU for textual and technical help Kage Alan, Joseph B. Cooper, Gayle DeVree, Rex DeVree, Sophie Freud, Kristoffer Gair, Richard Janaro, Douglas Kindschi, Greg Mahoney, Jody Nelson, Paul Pellerito, Richard Reitsma, Richard  ...

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