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Environment Film

Powerless Towns in Fukushima

Nuclear Nation II is a Window into the Lives at Ground Zero. Futaba, a small coastal city in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan, is where the TEPCO Daiichi nuclear power site failed, on March 11, 2011, following a terrible earthquake and tsunami. Even were the nuclear site to have withstood the impact — or had […]

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Music

From Island to Ocean to Ocean

Japan Noise Tour Kicks Off in North Portland The term “noise” might be derogatory in some cases, implying uninvited sound. But there is another view which contends that all sound, invited or not, is music, so it just depends on how seriously the musician takes their noise. One might suggest that the latter would be […]