The Harvest Approaches
Sugeno relaxes in the grass beside his radish field, Geiger counter in hand. Junko and Sugeno finish planting radishes in his mountaintop field in Nihonmatsu. Guests at Sugeno's farm enjoy flowers...
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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...
View ArticleWork-in-Progress Screenings, Kartemquin Films, New Projects, and More
Mizuho Sugeno The Asami family farms in Aizu in Western Fukushima. 2013 greetings from Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski of Homesick Blues Productions, the filmmakers behind the ongoing documentary...
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Fukushima organic farmer runs for mayor Fukushima Year 3: Renewal Fukushima Animals Rio+20: Four Fukushima Farmers Would you stay? Fukushima farmers fight for their land. One year after the meltdown...
View ArticleWe return to Fukushima to cover farmer’s campaign for mayor
Akihiro Asami left his life as a city salaryman to raise his family on a self-sustaining organic farm in the mountains of Kitakata, on the western outskirts of Fukushima prefecture. When the Fukushima...
View ArticleTen Thousand Things: Still Praying for Tohoku
Organic farmer and darkhorse mayoral candidate Asami Akihiro canvasses the mountain villages that ring Kitakata City. Ten Thousand Things from Kyoto writes: “Uncanny Terrain follows mayoral candidacy...
View ArticleUncanny Terrain in Spanish magazine Dar Lugar
Co-director Ed M. Koziarski wrote an article about Uncanny Terrain for new Spanish magazine Dar Lugar. Here are links to the article, followed by the original English text. Dar Lugar part 1 Dar Lugar...
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