What in the process of committing the catastrophe to history, has the government officially recorded-what has it chosen to forget?

Last Paper

Watch the video(Crisis as Narrative – The 2011 Tohoku triple disaster) and write the paper following the prompt. Also, use outside resources if needed.

(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vT-1hrm5C-UtEG9tk072nVbXlIvnOymZ)

Prompt: How has the 3.11 disaster been conceived of and memorialized? What, in the process of committing the catastrophe to history, has the government officially recorded and what has it chosen to forget? Explain (in 500-700 words) some of the most salient aspects of the main account of the disaster offered by the presentation, describing how it relates to the tropes of ‘disasters as great equalizers’ and ‘Japan, the land of disasters’.