PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

1. Borland, Janet. Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020. 
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674247826

BOOK CHAPTER

2. Borland, Janet. “Birds and Children as Barometers of Japan’s Postwar Environmental History.” In Reconsidering Postwar Japanese History: A Handbook, edited by Simon Avenell, 194-208. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

REFEREED ARTICLES

3. Scawthorn, Charles, Tomoaki Nishino, J. Charles Schencking and Janet Borland, “Kantō Daikasai: The Great Kantō Fire following the 1923 Earthquake,” Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 113, no. 5 (2023): 1902-1923. 
https://doi.org/10.1785/0120230106

4. Borland, Janet. “Giving Earthquake Children the Voice they Deserve One Hundred Years Later,” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus vol 21, issue 8, no. 4 (2023): 1-12. 
https://apjjf.org/2023/8/Borland.html

5. Borland, Janet. “In Memory of Future Earthquakes: Controversial New Form and Function of a Commemorative Statue in 1920s Tokyo.” Journal of Material Culture 27, no. 3 (2022): 238-258.
https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835221086874

6. Borland, Janet. “Saving Red-crowned Cranes: Children as Charismatic Conservationists in 1960s Japan.” Environmental History 27, no.1 (2022): 30-57.
https://doi.org/10.1086/717437

7. Borland, Janet, and J. Charles Schencking. “Objects of Concern, Ambassadors of Gratitude: Children, Humanitarianism, and Transpacific Diplomacy Following Japan’s 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake.” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 13, no. 2 (2020): 195-225.
https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2020.0035

8. Borland, Janet. “Small Parks, Big Designs: Reconstructed Tokyo’s New Green Spaces, 1923–1931.” Urban History 47, no. 1​ (2020): 106-125.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000567

9. Borland, Janet. “Voices of Vulnerability and Resilience: Children and their Recollections in Post-Earthquake Tokyo,” Japanese Studies 36, no. 3 (2016): 299-317.
Special Issue: “Japanese Children Amid Disaster and War, 1920-1945”
https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2016.1246058

10. Borland, Janet. “Makeshift Schools and Education in the Ruins of Tokyo, 1923,” Japanese Studies 29, no.1 (2009): 131-143.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10371390902780571

11. Borland, Janet. “Lessons From History for Today and Tomorrow: Disaster Prevention and Education in Japanese Schools Following the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake,” Education Without Borders Conference Proceedings, Abu Dhabi, UAE February 2007, 259-268.

12. Borland, Janet. “Capitalising on Catastrophe: Reinvigorating the Japanese State with Moral Values through Education Following the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake,” Modern Asian Studies 40, no. 4 (2006): 875-907.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X06002010

13. Borland, Janet. “Stories of Ideal Japanese Subjects From the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923,” Japanese Studies 25, no. 1 (2005): 21-34.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10371390500067645

BOOK REVIEWS

14. Borland, Janet. Review of Patriotic Pedagogy: How Karuta Game Cards Taught a Japanese War Generation. By Michaela Kelly (Brill, Leiden, 2022), Journal of Japanese Studies 49, no. 2 (2023): 538-541.
https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2023.a903498

15. Borland, Janet. Review of The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences. By Aya Takahashi (London: Routledge, 2004), Japanese Studies 26, no. 2 (2006): 238-240.

FEATURED ARTICLE

16. Borland, Janet. “Earthquake Children Image Archive: A Window into Disaster and Humanity.” Japanese Studies Spotlight, North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC), 11 March 2024.
https://guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/news/news/Japanese-Studies-Spotlight-Earthquake-Children

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