While the outside world reels from increasing levels of coronavirus, and the sad stories of death and anxiety, we try to make sense of the new normal. Equally it is often a time to reach inside and see what is really important. Family, dreams, passions. One of the things that I have been researching heavily […]
Kagawa prefecture in the southern Japanese island of Shikoku is not the first place that comes to mind when thinking of a wholesale transformation of the transportation landscape. But as accelerated aging takes its toll, especially in rural regions with the younger population inexorably migrating into the bigger cities, the viability of the current transportation […]
On March 11, 2011, Japan was shaken by one of the largest earthquakes ever felt leading to a massive tsunami. At over 15,000 deaths, 6,000+ injured and 2,000+ missing it is one of Japan’s worst disasters to-date, costing untold billions to the economy. Since 2013 (and apparently until 2037) a new reconstruction tax means that […]
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