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May 11, 2026 Students from a Neighboring School Harvest the Tea Fields of a Closed Branch School—Who Designs the ‘Succession System’? Title Students from a Neighboring School Harvest the Tea Fields of a Closed Branch School—Who Designs the 'Succession Sy By Rei
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May 9, 2026 95-Year-Old Classmate Attends Memorial Service for the First Time, 80-Year-Old Essay Collection by a Poet—A Third Party Emerges in the ‘Delivery of Memory’ The number of witnesses is decreasing. This fact cannot be changed. However, 'deliverers' can emerge from unexpected pla By Rei
May 8, 2026 In a Prefecture with a Population Decline of 20,000, Libraries Have Increased Tenfold—Dissecting the Essence of ‘Systems that Gather People’ In a Prefecture with a Population Decline of 20,000, Libraries Have Increased Tenfold—Dissecting the Essence of 'Systems By Rei
May 7, 2026 The Statue of Ashikaga Takauji Returns as a ‘Handsome Man,’ and the Ueda Sōka School Changes Its Headmaster for the First Time in 31 Years—The Quiet Arrangements of Those Handing Over the ‘400-Year System’ On the Other Side of the Silk Painting, There is Someone's Hand A 16th-century portrait preserved at Jōdō-ji Temple in By Rei
May 5, 2026 Iwakuni’s Cooperation Team, Onomichi’s Cat Surgery Vehicle, and Kure’s Oyster Restoration—’The Hands of Outsiders’ Begin to Turn the Mechanisms of Setouchi 3 Common Questions Across Three Sites Something unusual is happening in three towns along the Seto Inland Sea. In Iwak By Rei
May 4, 2026 Survivors Speak in NY, High School Students Deliver Signatures, and the Post Office Hospital Becomes a Museum — The ‘Delivery of Memory’ is Now Operating Simultaneously Through Three Circuits Same Week, Three Circuits in Motion At the United Nations headquarters in New York, an 81-year-old atomic bomb survivor By Rei
May 3, 2026 Another Economic Sphere is Sprouting in the Base Town—High School Students in Iwakuni Create a “Reason to Stay” with E-Bikes What Lies Beyond the Kintai Bridge When people think of Iwakuni, they likely envision two scenes: the Kintai Bridge, wi By Rei
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May 1, 2026 Hiroshima’s ‘Ways of Delivering Memory’ Are Being Rewritten Simultaneously in Three Ways: A Museum in a Bombed Building, Chinese Noodles Crossing the Ocean, and High School Students Speaking in New York Memory Shifts from 'Preservation' to 'Distribution' — Three Circuits Opened Simultaneously Three news stories emerged f By Rei
April 30, 2026 Knife on the Bus, Voyeurism on the Train, Stalled at the Crossing—What Happened in the ‘Closed Space’ of Public Transport and the Current State of Passenger Protection Mechanisms Closed Space: What Happened A passenger sitting in a seat on a highway bus notices the handle of a knife peeking out fr By Rei
April 29, 2026 40% Find Parenting Difficult, 1,000 Fewer Junior High School Applicants in 5 Years, 30,000 Copies of Ending Notes Reprinted—Hiroshima City’s ‘Entrances and Exits of Life’ Reflect Quiet Tectonic Shifts Same City, Narrowing Entrances and Organized Exits In Hiroshima City, three numbers quietly align. Approximately 40% o By Rei
April 28, 2026 2,900 People in Onomichi, Tai Net Fishing in Tomonoura, Jazz in Iwakuni—Where is the Mechanism that ‘Turns’ the Festivals of Setouchi? 2,900 People in Onomichi, Tai Net Fishing in Tomonoura, Jazz in Iwakuni—Where is the Mechanism that 'Turns' the Festival By Rei
April 27, 2026 Tramway Exhibition, Large Roof at the Station Building, Tourists on the Circular Line—Hiroshima’s “Flow” is Being Rewritten Simultaneously in Summer 2026 "Changing the Boarding Point" Means Shifting the Center of the City Looking down from the south exit pedestrian deck at By Rei
April 26, 2026 While Numbers Are Up, People Are Leaving the City — The Reopening of the Yamato Museum, Nikkei Average Hits 60,000, and the Contradictions Highlighted by ‘Stay@Hiroshima’ The Day People Returned to Kure, While People Left Hiroshima In the spring of 2025, the Yamato Museum (Kure Maritime Hi By Rei
April 25, 2026 PFAS Guideline Value Tripled, Five Households Evacuated Due to Slope Collapse—What the “Ground Below” in Hiroshima is Quietly Asking Same Week, Same City—Two Underground Disturbances Unveiled In Hiroshima City, in the Asaminami and Higashi districts, t By Rei
April 24, 2026 Self-Defense Forces Arrive in a Town Without Doctors, and the Museum Disappears—A Memorandum on How the ‘National Hand’ Reaches Iwakuni Self-Defense Forces Arrive in a Town Without Doctors, and the Museum Disappears Two pieces of news arrived from the sam By Rei
April 22, 2026 Driven by People, Bearing Fruit, Welcoming Guests: The Mechanism of External Forces Turning Setouchi Three Types of "Outside" Forces Moving on the Same Sea A somewhat mysterious phenomenon is occurring along the Setouchi By Rei
April 21, 2026 Uranium Detected in Hibakusha, Eight Students Sent to NPT Conference — “The Memory of Matter” and “The Words of People” Are Operating Simultaneously 70 Years of Evidence On the day the atomic bomb was dropped, uranium remained in the bodies of those who were not prese By Rei
April 19, 2026 3432 Signatures for High School Reorganization, New Students Experiencing Kagura at a Branch School, First A-Level in Chugoku Region—Who Benefits from the Changing ‘Shape of Schools’ in Hiroshima? 3432 Signatures for High School Reorganization, New Students Experiencing Kagura at a Branch School, First A-Level in Ch By Rei
April 18, 2026 What Kazuo Imanishi, the ‘Behind-the-Scenes’ Figure, Left Behind — Will the Development System Continue Beyond People? What Remains After One Behind-the-Scenes Figure Has Departed On October 15, 2023, Kazuo Imanishi, the first general dir By Rei
April 17, 2026 The Revival of Tide Pooling in Onomichi, Release of Young Ayu in the Nishiki River, and the Invasive Aigo Disrupting Seagrass Beds—A Quiet Yet Reliable Mechanism Supporting the “Aquatic Creature Economy” of the Seto Inland Sea The Seto Inland Sea's Waterways: Three Active Sites Tide pooling has returned to Onomichi after a six-year hiatus. In t By Rei
April 16, 2026 2.12 million foreign guests, 2.58 million visitors to the Atomic Bomb Museum, and 620,000 users of the Senkoji Ropeway—Where is the boundary between ‘transit’ and ‘stay’ behind the numbers? Three Numbers Reflecting the Current State of Hiroshima Tourism 2.12 million, 2.58 million, 620,000—. The tourism stat By Rei
April 15, 2026 Renovation of the Yamato Museum, Restoration of the Statue of Ashikaga Takauji, and Urban Sports Development at the Cycling Stadium—Whose Comfort Does the Design Philosophy of “Rebuilding” Serve? Title Renovation of the Yamato Museum, Restoration of the Statue of Ashikaga Takauji, and Urban Sports Development at th By Rei
April 14, 2026 Care Workers Confounded by Hiroshima Dialect, Indonesian National Exam Passer — Understanding the Mechanisms on Both Sides of the ‘Language Barrier’ The Same 'Language Barrier' Creates Confusion in Some Settings While Opening Doors for Others Two contrasting stories h By Rei
April 12, 2026 The Birthplace of Nobuhiko Obayashi, the Statue of Takauji Ashikaga, and Honkawa Elementary School—Where is the Boundary Between ‘Restoration’ and ‘Preservation’? The Birthplace of Nobuhiko Obayashi, the Statue of Takauji Ashikaga, and Honkawa Elementary School—Where is the Boundary By Rei
April 11, 2026 Iwakuni Airport Breaks Records, APA Hotel Expansion, Morning Drama Filming—Can ‘Another Economic Zone’ Grow in the Base Town? Iwakuni Airport Breaks Records, APA Hotel Expansion, Morning Drama Filming—Can 'Another Economic Zone' Grow in the Base By Rei
April 10, 2026 The Remnant Flame of Hiroshima Lights Up in Hawaii as the NPT Conference Approaches—80 Years of the Mechanism for Carrying the ‘Fire’ The Remnant Flame of Hiroshima Lights Up in Hawaii as the NPT Conference Approaches—80 Years of the Mechanism for Carryi By Rei
April 9, 2026 Wooden Reconstruction of Hiroshima Castle and Groundbreaking of New Museum — Reading the Timeline of a City that ‘Rebuilds’ Wooden Reconstruction of Hiroshima Castle and Groundbreaking of New Museum — Reading the Timeline of a City that 'Rebuil By Rei
April 8, 2026 A Place Visited by 2.58 Million and the Prefecture with the Lowest Migration Aspirations Ranking—The Paradox of Interest in Hiroshima A Place Visited by 2.58 Million and the Prefecture with the Lowest Migration Aspirations Ranking—The Paradox of Interest By Rei
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October 22, 2023 “I Ride All the New Models”: Interview with Kawasaki Motors Japan President Eiko Kirino (#2) We interviewed this “Amazing Customer,” i.e., Eiko Kirino about her career that led to the president, and why the motorcycle brand is called “Macho Kawasaki.” By Yusuke Hirata
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March 28, 2023 The Delusional Sense of Crisis and “Solidarity”: Can Xi Face Real-World Challenges? (#2) Statements on foreign policy in Xi’s speech were mostly filled with the conventional phrases. By Shin Kawashima
April 7, 2026 An Era Where Robots Work for a Monthly Salary of 50,000 Yen — How Local SMEs’ Human Resource Strategies Are Changing An Era Where Robots Work for a Monthly Salary of 50,000 Yen — How Local SMEs' Human Resource Strategies Are Changing No By Kai
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