Essay: Learning with Namie
In the late fall of 2015, I took a study trip to the multiple disaster zones of northeastern Japan. The trip not only opened my eyes to the scale of the ruptures that occurred on March 11, 2011, but
Article: Pro-Nuclear Manga: The Seventies and Eighties (2016)
Holmberg, Ryan. 2016. “Pro-Nuclear Manga: The Seventies and Eighties.” The Comics Journal. 26 Feb. http://www.tcj.com/pro-nuclear-manga-the-seventies-and-eighties/. Editor’s note: We invited art and comics historian and The Comics Journal’s “What was alternative manga” columnist Ryan Holmberg to introduce the historical genre
BOOK: Determining ‘Safety’ Together: One Year in the ‘Eat Local’ Movement in Post-3.11 Kashiwa (2012)
Igarashi, Yasumasa et al. Minna de kimeta “anshin” no katachi: posuto 3.11 no “jisan jishō” o sagashita Kashiwa no ichinen. Aki shobō, 2012. The Great East Japan Earthquake of 11 March, 2011 and the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi
映画: 小さき声のカノン－選択する人々 (2015)
ドキュメンタリー映画『ヒバクシャ－世界の終わりに』（2003）、『六ケ所村ラプソディー』（2006）、『ミツバチの羽音と地球の回転』（2010）など、福島原発事故以前から原発問題を追っている鎌仲ひとみ監督による最新作。福島に残ることを選択した母親たちを中心に、子どもを被曝から守るための方法を探る人々の姿が描かれる。キーワードは「保養」である。
FILM: A2-B-C (2013)
A2-B-C. Directed by Ian Thomas Ash. 2013. (Documentary, 70min.) This documentary by the Japan-resident American filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash focuses on children and parents living in areas of Fukushima prefecture contaminated by radioactivity. Focusing exclusively on these Fukushima families, the director
BOOK: A History of Radiation Exposure (2011)
Nakagawa, Yasuo. Hōshasen hibaku no rekishi: Amerika genbaku kaihatsu kara Fukushima genpatsu jiko made. Akashi shoten, 2011. Today’s radiation exposure protection standards have been dressed up in scientific garb to convince those compelled to live with radiation from nuclear power