Related to the Tohoku quake:
Japan Ponders Its New Normal - Hiroko Tabuchi (NYT)
For a Change, Proud to be Japanese - Hiroki Azuma (NYT)
Japan quake: Disaster tests country's famed 'stoicism' - Chris Hogg (BBC Tokyo)
Extreme nationalism may emerge from the rubble of the quake (Michael Hoffman)
Better to be branded a 'flyjin' than a man of the 'sheeple' - Debito Arudou (Japan Times)
'Flyjin,' 'sheeple,' angry people: readers' views - a response to Debito
Report from Tokyo: A Mindset of Normalcy - David Wagner (HuffPo)
The last two paragraphs about the idea of jishuku are interesting, the rest isn't.
Japan fears post-quake rise in suicides - John M. Glionna (LA Times)
I wonder why Japanese news hasn't really covered this much
Scams mustn't overshadow acts of goodwill (Yomiuri with the ANN)
Crushed, but true to law of 'gaman' (The Australian)
Dunno how legit this source is, though.
Other big events:
Aum's crimes marked start of growing public safety fear - Reiji Yoshida and Masami Ito (Japan Times)
Are you worried that Tokyo could be a target of terrorism? - Melanie Burton (Japan Times)
It's Japanese trait to close eyes, not see bad (Rome News-Tribune)
A scanned article from Google news discussing the 1995 Great Hanshin quake (pretty biased)
Rift in Coverage; Japanese and Western Quake Reporting Worlds Apart
If someone could access this, it might be a good starting point. It's about the different mentalities Westerners and Japanese people have based on their reactions to the Hanshin quake.
**There's a lot of stuff about Aum and the Hanshin quake but it's all behind a paywall.
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