‘I found myself falling in love with the culture of the Land of the Rising Sun’
By Luis Carlo San Juan
After the earthquake and tsunami hit the eastern coast of Japan in March 2011, the country didn’t just want to reconstruct; it wanted to improve.
After the earthquake and tsunami hit the eastern coast of Japan in March 2011, the country didn’t just want to reconstruct; it wanted to improve.
“The Japanese government has been heavily criticized for the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. But has anyone ever thought of telling the story of the positive contribution of technology to the disaster?” said filmmaker Hiroshi Nakazawa.
LAST MARCH’S devastating earthquake and tsunami shocked the world. Among those affected were Filipinos who lived within the hazard zone of the nuclear power plants which suffered meltdown. They had to be repatriated home. At the time, young Japanese pianist Kao Sugata, consulting her mentor Cecile Basilio-Roxas, planned to give a recital this June to [...]
The ocean recedes, the seabed appears, the seawater boils, and a big wave rears its towering cowl, and heads for the land: it covers the surf, and covers the sand. With the speed of wind it cuts down the trees, carries off houses, drowns prayers and pleas. It rips across seashores like a curse returning, [...]
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