The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, a leading scholarly online journal that explores the geopolitics, economics, history, society, culture, international relations and environment of the modern and contemporary Asia-Pacific region, has recently featured the Japan Disasters Digital Archive (JDA) Project in a two-part special issue, highlighted on the journal's homepage. This section includes several articles written by Andrew Gordon (Project Director and Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History), Ryo Morimoto (Project Manager and Spring 2025 RIJS Visiting Scholar), Keiichi Sato (2021-22 RIJS Visiting Scholar), and other project partners, as well as the complete audio recording of a live conversation on "The Future and Politics of Disaster Digital Archiving."

Established in 2011 by Prof. Gordon, the JDA is an online collaborative space and site of shared memory, seeking to collect, preserve, and make broadly accessible many forms of first-hand information and primary documentation of the events of March 11, 2011 and their aftermath. Next year will mark the 15th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Japan Disasters Digital Archive.

The full JDA section can be found here.