Research

Living the Post-Disaster

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Notice of Publication, “New Habitations: from North to East 11 years after 3.11”

Satoko Shibahara, Natsumi Seo, Takuroh Toyama

With photographs taken 11 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the words of the land spoken over the past 11 years. “Scenes of New Habitations” are woven from the present and...

Living the Post-Disaster

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Rikuzentakata, Iwate 12, June, 2022 　

Keigo Kobayashi Laboratory, Keigo Kobayashi

Mr. Nagayama from Rikuzentakada City Office showed us around. Here we heard about the administrative reconstruction projects in Takada-cho and Imaizumi-cho, such as land use improvement ...

Living the Post-Disaster

Rikuzentakata, Iwate 11, June, 2022

Keigo Kobayashi Laboratory, Keigo Kobayashi

Afterwards, we visited Hamanasu fresh market and interviewed Mr. Yoshida. Mr. Yoshida's daughter welcomed us together and gave us three hours of her valuable time. Mr. Yoshida has been ...

Living the Post-Disaster

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Marumori, Miyagi 10, June, 2022

Keigo Kobayashi Laboratory, Keigo Kobayashi

This time, we rented a work shed to present the research on Marumori conducted by the Kobayashi-Lab. Not only Mr. Shishido but also other residents gathered to hear various stories based ...

Living the Post-Disaster

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“Homes must be built”

Satoko Shibahara

The landscape of the post-disaster town is mainly created by the houses. It seems to me that the conditions required for such houses are not “how to live.” Most people are focused on this...

A City at Forty Years

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Thursday, January 26, 2022

Wen Yuju

When I visited the Tokyo Air City Terminal at the end of last year, I was convinced of my own fierce resistance to the “bad nostalgia” that “only sugarcoats and beautifies the past” (Shuh...

Living the Post-Disaster

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March 2, 2022 Arahama District, Sendai

Satoko Shibahara

Parallel to the coastline is the Teizan moat, created by the Date clan in the Edo period. There, ducks and seagulls were gathering to shelter from the wind. A peaceful scene. I wonder who...

A City at Forty Years

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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Wen Yuju

In the fall of 1983, when I was three years old, I began living with my mother in an apartment in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, where my father had settled down earlier.

The Smell of Earth

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Abukuma River

Satoko Shibahara

Walking along the river at Fudoson Park in Marumori-cho on October 7, 2021.

Living the Post-Disaster

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Marumori

Satoko Shibahara

6-8 Oct 2021, to Marumorimachi, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Haruka Komori + Natsumi Seo will talk to local people in connection with the production of their work. As this was their first v...

A City at Forty Years

Ride the Tokyo Monorail

Satoko Shibahara

In other words, if things continue as they have in the past, it is time for the sceneries that we, who are over forty years old, saw in our childhood to start disappearing. Will the scene...