RaveThe GuardianRichard Lloyd Parry’s book reminds us that preconceived ideas about regions and their peoples are no more than half-truths. Other realities existed beneath the surface of post-disaster life ... a compassionate and piercing look at the communities ravaged by the tsunami ... There is another set of spirits that inhabit the pages of Lloyd Parry’s book – the ghosts of Japan’s political failures at every level of society, from village communities to local authorities to city and prefectural governments, all the way to the central government that proved unable to respond fully to the disaster.
