Unsurprisingly, Japanese readers are seeking books about the March 11 disaster and about how to overcome it spiritually. In bookstores now can be found many works of reportage — for example, volumes in which major newspapers have reproduced their pages devoted to the disaster.
Other publishers have made use of electronic media, as in Misuzu Shobo's digital edition of an out-of-print record by a psychiatrist of his experiences after the Kobe earthquake.
Especially popular since the disaster have been two disparate works, "Sanriku kaigan ootsunami" (Large tsunami that have hit the Sanriku coastal area) by Akira Yoshimura, and "One Piece: Strong Words" by Eiichiro Oda.