Takashi Arai, 'Here and There': too far, too close to Fukushima by Marco Bohr

“…By using a plate camera and developing the images with the daguerreotype process, at first sight the photographs appear to represent scenes from a bygone era – perhaps to a time when Japan began to open its closed borders to the West in the mid-19th century. …”
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Anatomy of cascading natural disasters in Japan: main modes and linkages by Mieko Kumasaki, Malcolm King, Mitsuru Arai, Lili Yang

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