March 2011
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"Movie Mutants Give A Face To Our Nuclear Fears"... →
Radioactive monster Godzilla stomps through a city and eats a commuter train in a scene from Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, directed by Ishiro Honda and Terry O. Morse. The 1956 film was a re-edited version of the 1954 Japanese film Gojira, directed by Honda.
Movie Mutants Give A Face To Our Nuclear Fears
by Neda Ulaby
Within the first few days of the threefold tragedy in Japan, ...
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"A Country’s Lasting Aftershocks" from the New... →
The New York Times Op-Ed columns included this series of three incisive essays, which were too important to let go by without reposting here. One is by the scientist IKEUCHI Satoru 池内 了, one by the prominent novelist and critic TAKAHASHI Gen’ichirō 高橋源一郎, and the other by my friend, the translator and critic NUMANO Mitsuyoshi 沼野充義.
A Country’s Lasting Aftershocks
By SATORU IKEUCHI,...
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Donald Keene & Kimiko Hahn on NPR "What America... →
Prof. Donald Keene, a professor emeritus at Columbia and one of Japanese literature’s most prominent critics and most accomplished translators, and Kimiko Hahn, the important Japanese-American poet, were guests this afternoon on NPR’s Talk of the Nation in a program about books that would help the American population to understand Japan.
I was profoundly surprised to find that...
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"History Repeats" by ŌE Kenzaburō →
“Japanese history has entered a new phase, and once again we must look at things through the eyes of the victims of nuclear power, of the men and the women who have proved their courage through suffering. The lesson that we learn from the current disaster will depend on whether those who survive it resolve not to repeat their mistakes.”
To read the entire article, click the...
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7 Poems by HIRATA Toshiko 平田俊子 in Action Yes →
The online journal Action Yes, has published seven poems by the contemporary poet HIRATA Toshiko 平田俊子, both in my English translation and in the original Japanese. Many of the poems featured in this selection use black humor to describe dysfunctional families who maintain an ordinary outward appearance, even as things go terribly wrong inside the home. Most of these poems came from her 1997...
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WMUK Interview about Post-Earthquake Tokyo →
I am now safely back in Kalamazoo, where the earth is not shaking. I slept for a long time last night, able to sleep well for the first time in several days without any of the low-level stress of aftershocks. Back here, life is disconcertingly normal. It is strange to see my neighbors out the window walking their dogs normally, without worrying about radiation.
Here, where everything is quiet...
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Day 65: Waiting for blackout, Yokohama....
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