Culture | Death in the afternoon
A remarkable account of the 2011 tsunami in Japan
How the authorities reacted in the face of disaster says a lot about Japan
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone. By Richard Lloyd Parry. Jonathan Cape, 276 pages, £16.99. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October; $27.
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