Opinion
April 30, 2013
As concern over nuclear accidents and radiation lessens, people have begun to go so far as to talk about restarting idle reactors.
April 07, 2013
More than two years after the 3/11 disaster, a tremendous amount of tsunami debris remains uncollected throughout Japan’s Tohoku region. In municipalties like Rikuzentakata,...
March 20, 2013
Although central and local governments have been upgrading their disaster damage projections and crisis management plans, Toshitaka Katada, professor at Gunma University,...
March 08, 2013
Award-winning journalist Yoichi Funabashi has spent much of the past two years trying to uncover the full story behind Japan's gravest national crisis of the postwar era: the...
July 29, 2012
With a disaster like 3/11, there is no manual for putting communities back together.
July 19, 2012
In a country long considered lacking a culture of protest, thousands of people are gathering every Friday night in Tokyo's Nagatacho political district to protest nuclear...
June 17, 2012
The decision by the central government on June 16 to resume operations at the Oi nuclear power plant is yet another attempt to rely on the myth of the safety of nuclear plants.
June 15, 2012
I have always felt discomfort about the way decisions are made in Japan based on "the mood" rather than "logic," and without proper discussions regarding principles.
June 15, 2012
When I was a student, I was only interested in literature and the arts. Then in 1963, a friend took me to a peace march against nuclear weapons.
April 03, 2012
A 68-year-old oyster farmer working in the sea off Kesennuma, a coastal city in Miyagi Prefecture devastated by the March 11 tsunami last year, has been chosen by the United...
March 27, 2012
Since the disastrous accident broke out at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant a year ago, various religious organizations in Japan have voiced critical views of nuclear...
March 21, 2012
"I wish there was no ceremony here," someone told me in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, where I went on March 11 to cover an event marking a year since the Great East Japan...
March 21, 2012
The Japan Buddhist Federation has called for a society that does not depend on nuclear power not to repeat the mistake Buddhist organizations made during World War II by...
March 20, 2012
Sendai, Ishinomaki, Fukushima, Minami-Soma, Iitate; places I would not have been able to place on a map before last year, but which now echo with a peculiar resonance. Ever...
March 19, 2012
While I was following around Taro Yamamoto, an actor now famous for his anti-nuclear crusade, late last year, I unexpectedly ran into an old friend of mine at a public debate.
March 14, 2012
A year has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake took place on March 11, 2011. What has changed in our society and how? What effect did the earthquake have on the way we ...
March 11, 2012
Over the past year, there has been much discussion related to the Great East Japan Earthquake and the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
March 11, 2012
The disaster that befell Japan a year ago was extraordinary in numerous ways: the earthquake’s magnitude and duration; the tsunami’s scarcely imaginable height and...
March 09, 2012
Right now, nothing definite can be said about the effects on the industrial base in the disaster-stricken areas and on people's health following the nuclear accident.
December 16, 2011
Alliances, from the Japan-U.S. security arrangement and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, are facing a new era of unpredictability and complexity, a U.S. foreign policy...