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A pair of Chicago indie filmmakers captures farmers in the aftermath of...
By Jake Malooley TimeOut Chicago Jan. 25, 2012 OUT TO PASTURE Kajino milks some good cow footage in the nuclear evacuation zone. One steamy day last July, Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski found...
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Eating Fukushima
by Ed M. Koziarski North Avenue Magazine Jan. 28, 2012 When does a victim become a perpetrator? That’s the question that kept coming up as we made our way across the irradiated landscape. Many...
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To the East Coast and On to Fukushima
Today Uncanny Terrain codirector Junko Kajino begins an East Coast mini-tour, presenting scenes from the in-progress documentary for schools and community groups. Please join her if you’re in the...
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One Year After the Meltdown
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Asami Girls
Organic farmer Asami’s wife and daughters evacuated in March 2011 from Aizu, 130 km west of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Asami only saw his daughters a few times last year. In the...
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Organic farmer father, nuclear engineer son
85-year-old Teruo Yasukawa has an organic farm on the edge of the nuclear exclusion zone. Last year Yasukawa challenged city officials for the right to grow rice for personal consumption. Yasukawa...
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Saitos spread zeolite
Father and son Saito powder their rice field with government-mandated zeolite. It’s intended to fix cesium in the soil to reduce absorption by crops, but some question its effectiveness and health...
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Ishii’s cucumbers
Ishii used to deliver food to Japanese restaurants in Maryland. For years he studied EM (effective microogranisms) as a hobby. Now he grows organic vegetables in Sukagawa, 60 km southwest of the...
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Seeking volunteer/intern translators
We’re looking for volunteers and interns to translate Japanese audio files into English transcripts. Please contact us if you can help.
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Cinema Jam: “Uncanny Terrain: The Documentary About the Devastation of...
Marija Makeska interviews filmmakers Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski in Cinema Jam: Junko: “Just like most of the Japanese people, I was always afraid of radiation from our history of atomic bombs in...
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