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Science 23 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5781, p. 1749
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130280
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GEOPHYSICS:
Building on Shaken Ground

Iain Stewart

Earthquake Nation
The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930
by Gregory Clancey
University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2006. 345 pp. $49.95, £32.50. ISBN 0-520-24607-1.

The author explores the development of seismology and quake-resistant engineering along with their cultural and political ramifications in Japan between the Meiji Restoration and the 1923 earthquake that destroyed Tokyo.
The reviewer is at the School of Earth, Ocean, and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK. E-mail: istewart{at}plymouth.ac.uk

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