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Itchy Nose

When a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, Tokyo artist Kazuto Tatsuta (a pen name taken from the Tatsuta train station in Fukushima) wanted to help…

Tokyo Parrots

by Yoshinori Mizutani,

[Untitled]

by Charles Fréger,

Belongings, Enoshima

by Emily Shur,

“2012.3.24 Kesen-cho” and “2013.5.12 Takata Matsubara”

by Naoya Hatakeyama,

Unjust Cause

by Andrew Cockburn,

Historian Gar Alperovitz on the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hour of the Horse

by Charlotte Dumas,

Invisible and Insidious

by William T. Vollmann,

Living at the edge of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster

From Cipango

by Bianca Sforni,

Lunch at the Robot Grill

by Aaron Gilbreath,

What Japan’s automats portend for American restaurant chains

Story A

by Gideon Lewis-Kraus,

Story B