Tonight's Course: A Hint of Spring Exhilaration!

RESET-BEYOND FUKUSHIMA──Beyond Fukushima. Three days after the Great East Japan Earthquake struck in March last year,Great East Japan Earthquakehe quit his job in Kyoto and immediately headed to the disaster-stricken area to photograph the situation. He then entered the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, documenting its interior and recording portraits and interviews of the workers. This photo collection, 'RESET-BEYOND FUKUSHIMA,' by Kazuma Ohara, a photojournalist from Iwate Prefecture, has been published by Lars Müller Publishers in Switzerland.



The collection presents a series of photographs that are both shocking and so overwhelmingly powerful that they can be perceived as beautiful. It also conveys the real voices of nuclear power plant workers, a topic often considered taboo in Japan, through portraits. This is a superb collection that also captures the magnificent, vast twilight sky, dyed in countless colors, which I find myself gazing at every time I visit the Tohoku region since the earthquake. I urge you to pick up this book, reflect on that land, and for as many people as possible, to actually visit the affected areas to see the 'now' of the region with your own eyes.