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Can Social Media Regenerate Tohoku?
“What do you want the most right now?” “Information, more than anything else.” After March 11, when the Great East Japan Earthquake struck, I visi... CATEGORY: After the Disaster -
Reconstruction Plan Beta:
The Cloud City
“Little Fukushima” is a city planned for allowing the 80,000 residents of areas designated for evacuation to live together again. CATEGORY: After the Disaster -
The Disaster Broke Us Apart
The disaster broke us apart. Would anyone disagree with this? Would he assert that the disaster has brought us together as one, that Japan has rega... CATEGORY: After the Disaster -
The Interior Design of
Comme des Garçons
Omotesando in 1999, just a few months before the new millennium. These days, this street is a concentrated zone of leading global brands, lined wit... CATEGORY: New Frontiers in Cultural Studies -
Complex Bird Tweets
and their Evolutionary Design
In March 2010, I was visiting a small town called Volcano in Amador County, California. Located about a three-hours drive away from the Sacramento... CATEGORY: Pattern Sciences -
Staying in Japan, Leaving Japan
On April 26, internet provider Livedoor’s ex-President Takafumi Horie, one of the leading figures of the ‘00s in Japan, was given a prison sen... CATEGORY: Interviews -
Severed time
In the afternoon of April 20, thirty hours before it was declared off-limits, I visited with a few others the central area of Namie town, located ... CATEGORY: After the Disaster
On the launch of Genron
Genron is an English-based web portal for critical discourse in Japan, managed by Tokyo-based publishing company Contectures LLC. Intimately coordinated with Shisouchizu beta, the journal published in Japanese by Contectures since 2010 dedicated to critical discourse in Japan, it will present ambitious and cutting-edge articles translated into English that capture the “here and now” in Japan and its society.Read more...
