Following its devastating experience with recent disasters, Japan has been strengthening or drawing up new disaster management plans at the national and local levels. The Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) revealed a number of weaknesses in planning for complex and extraordinary disasters....

Chapter 1: Economic shocks and uncertainties: how does firm innovativeness enable supply chain and moderate interdependence? -- Chapter 2: Supply chain resilience in the global financial crisis: an empirical study on Japan -- Chapter 3: How do production networks affect the resilience of firms...