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January 31, 2020
While 2019 marked 60 years since the Typhoon Vera, or the Isewan (Ise Bay) Typhoon, it was also a year in which Japan received a repeated battering from large-scale typhoons Faxai (Number 15) and Hagibis (Number 19). Then soon after the sta...
December 31, 2019
Typhoon Vera of 1959, or the Isewan (Ise Bay) Typhoon as it is known in Japan, is without doubt one of the most catastrophic natural disasters the country has ever experienced, with more than 5,000 deaths to its name. It led to the enactmen...
November 22, 2018
This year's typhoon season is finally over, leaving its terrible scars upon the Japanese archipelago. Among all the media coverage of the typhoons, one news story caught my eye: a team from Nagoya University flew an aircraft into the eye of...
June 29, 2018
Before my eyes there appeared an astonishing sight that was reminiscent of the Taisho Pond in Japan's popular mountain valley town of Kamikochi. Dead trees jut out of the water, their thin tips pointing toward the blue sky. This is at the f...
Surprised, I had to ask again. "What? A Buddhist memorial service every month?" Exactly six years after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, on the Saturday afternoon of March 11 this year I was at a talk in the gallery of the Disast...
Atsuko TSUJIEarned B.A. in Arts, College of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo in 1976. Joined The Asahi Shimbun Company in 1979 as a journalist and wrote many articles in science and technology area for newspaper and magazines...[read more] published by the company including editorial pieces. Knight Science Journalism Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 and Reuters Fellow at University of Oxford in 2014. Designated Professor of Nagoya University's Institute of International Education and Exchange since October 2016. [close]
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