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This live event features the salmon defender in conversation with coastal Indigenous leaders about our wild fish. Known locally as 3.11, the Great East Japan Earthquake was one of the most destructive natural disasters in the country’s history, with the death toll estimated at 16,000, although many bodies were never found. The tsunami surge, more than 130-feet-high in some areas, tossed cars into third-storey windows and reduced houses and shops to something resembling a giant game of pick-up-sticks. Images of vehicles twisted into unrecognizable crumples of metal and rubber, and fishing boats listing high on dry land maintain a level of surrealism. ....
Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents a moving exploration of post-disaster recovery and regeneration Masao Okabe, The Irradiated Trees Series at the awai art center in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture Japan, 2016. Photo: Fuyubi Nakamura. VANCOUVER .-The Museum of Anthropology at UBC announces the powerful group exhibition A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake, on display from February 11 to September 5, 2021. Curated by Fuyubi Nakamura, MOAs Curator for Asia, the exhibition opened in time to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2011 triple disaster that saw a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown hit the eastern region of Japan. The exhibition highlights natures destructive impact on humans and its regenerative potential, and explores how humans live in harmony with nature, as well as how new connections and relationships have developed in the aftermath of this tragic event. ....