The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will be hosting a special exhibition titled “Art & Imagination from FUKUSHIMA – The Beginning of Creation in Fukushima Hamadori” at Shibuya Hikarie in Tokyo from 11 to 15 March...
Golden Pecan Inc., the city of Rikuzentakata, and The University of Tokyo are collaborating in a project to establish a domestic pecan nut industry in Rikuzentakata, an area affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The project has...
The most inspiring academic conference I’ve attended was the “Scientific Society for the Life Circling Town of Minami-Sanriku” in Miyagi Prefecture on November 23, 2023. I joined 120 participants, a mix of researchers from various...
On the afternoon of 1 January 2024, the Noto Peninsula Earthquake struck the peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture with a magnitude of 7.6. A tsunami warning sounded across the western coasts of Japan, as the tsunami that followed hit the Noto Peninsula...