A decade since the Fukushima disaster
There are few events in world history that make us ask ourselves: Where was I when that happened?
I still remember when the news broke about a plane crashing into the World Trade Centre in 2001 and the visuals of the giant waves hitting Indonesia and Thailand’s coast in 2004. Another shocking tragedy that affected so many of us was the tsunami hitting the nuclear power station on Fukushima’s coast. The images from these events are forever seared into memory.
It’s been a decade since the disaster took place. However, the trauma is still fresh, especially for the survivors who physically experienced the catastrophe. We had seen Chernobyl exactly 25 years before this, and with Fukushima, we once again all witnessed the horror of another nuclear accident. Like Chernobyl, hundreds and thousands of families had to be evacuated overnight as their homes were no longer safe. Nuclear radiation was spreading every minute, contaminati
In Japan, His Disaster Art Saves Lives
The fight to survive lies at the heart of Kyohei Sakaguchi’s world, whether he is writing self-help books, painting, creating a suicide help line, or designing recycled housing.
A zero yen house designed by the Japanese artist and architect Kyohei Sakaguchi to be constructed with little or no money.Credit.Kyohei Sakaguchi
By Eric Margolis
Published March 5, 2021Updated March 9, 2021
KUMAMOTO, Japan A week before the artist, author and architect Kyohei Sakaguchi planned to move into one of his celebrated “zero yen” houses, built from recycled materials, the catastrophic 2011 earthquake struck Japan. A tsunami engulfed the Tohoku region and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant collapsed. He had recently begun treatment for bipolar disorder. Overwhelmed, he left Tokyo and headed back home to the verdant coastal city of Kumamoto in southwest Japan, and abandoned the recycling project.
An old men s club dominates Japan The young just put them on notice orlandosentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from orlandosentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This website puts boisterous children and noisy neighbours on the map
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Children play in a park in Tokyo. Among the 6,000 complaints on the DQN Today website are entries that single out areas frequented by unsupervised children. Photo / Noriko Hayashi, The New York Times
Children play in a park in Tokyo. Among the 6,000 complaints on the DQN Today website are entries that single out areas frequented by unsupervised children. Photo / Noriko Hayashi, The New York Times
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By: Tiffany May and Hisako Ueno
The crowdsourced guide collects anonymous gripes and pins every grievance on an interactive map, creating a record of the irritating sounds and sights of Japan.
An âOld Menâs Clubâ Dominates Japan. The Young Just Put Them on Notice.
Change may come slowly in Japanese society, but social media has offered an outlet for a younger generation stifled by a rigid hierarchy.
Momoko Nojo, a student at Keio University in Tokyo, and one of the authors of the petition that called for systemic change in the wake of sexist remarks by the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee.Credit.Noriko Hayashi for The New York Times
TOKYO â For a moment, it looked as if the most powerful people in Japan were three 20-something women.