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June 1, 2026 70 Years of the Hiroshima Federation of A-Bomb Survivors: A Change in Leadership — The Blueprint for the Work of ‘Connecting’ 70 Years of the Hiroshima Federation of A-Bomb Survivors: A Change in Leadership — The Blueprint for the Work of 'Connec By Rei
May 31, 2026 Red Buckwheat Honey, Kakitaka Bento, Wild Boar Leather—Transforming ‘Waste’ into ‘Goods’ in the Setouchi Region 花も、皮も、規格外も——誰かが「もったいない」と言ったところから始まった In the Setouchi region, stretching from the coast of Hiroshima Prefecture to the m By Rei
May 30, 2026 The Day the ‘Onomichi Method’ for Pancreatic Cancer Was Published in an International Journal — Two Decades to Make a Local Clinic Network a Global Standard The Day the 'Onomichi Method' for Pancreatic Cancer Was Published in an International Journal — Finding a Cancer That No By Rei
May 29, 2026 Remote Operation of Heavy Machinery, School Dogs, and Police Recruiters: Hiroshima Quietly Invents Alternative Systems Amidst a ‘Labor Shortage’ Changing the "Use of People" Instead of Increasing Their Numbers People are not coming to construction sites. School co By Rei
May 28, 2026 Repair or Restore the Kintai Bridge, the Disappeared Fire of Miyajima, and the Arch of A-bombed Trees — Three Variations on the Philosophy of “Fixing the Broken” Repair or Restore the Kintai Bridge, the Disappeared Fire of Miyajima, and the Arch of A-bombed Trees — Three Variations By Rei
May 27, 2026 Persimmons Turned into Beer, Delaware Grapes Shipped, and a 440-Year-Old Vinegar Brewery: The ‘No Waste, Full Use’ Economic Zone of Onomichi Onomichi's 'No Waste, Full Use' Economic Zone In this hilly town, there is a system where things that were on the verge By Rei
May 26, 2026 Sparrows Stop the Bell, and Mr. Minomaki Lays Down His Pen—In Summer 2026, Hiroshima’s ‘Peace Transmission Mechanism’ is Simultaneously Shaking Three "Stops" Overlapping in Summer In the summer of 2026, three things came to a halt simultaneously in Hiroshima. A By Rei
May 24, 2026 Sparrows Build a Nest in the Bell, High School Students Take Up the Brush, and the Correct Answer Rate Exceeds 90%—The Nested Structure Supporting the ‘Memory of August 6’ Inside the Bell, a Small Life Has Taken Residence In Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park stands the "Children of the Atomic By Rei
May 23, 2026 A 440-Year-Old Vinegar Brewery, Seeds from 48 Years Ago, and a 10-Year Paper Cutout: How ‘Taking Time’ Becomes an Economy in a Small Setting in Setouchi Outside of Speed, Price Tags Are Starting to Appear In a back alley of Onomichi, there is a vinegar brewery that has be By Rei
May 22, 2026 Who Will Restore the ‘Eternal Flame’? — The Complete Destruction of the Reikado Hall, the Government-Driven Bid Rigging in Onomichi, and the Disappearance of the Buddha Statue Model Reflect the Absence of ‘Cultural Heritage Support’ Who Noticed the Fire Was Out First on the Morning It Went Out? There is a flame that has supposedly burned for over 1,2 By Rei
May 21, 2026 Chartering Trams, Reviving Beer Halls, and Tailoring Separate Yukata—The Small Players Supporting Hiroshima’s ‘Night Economy’ Transforming the Existing into Something New at Night Hiroshima's nights are beginning to change—this may sound exagger By Rei
May 20, 2026 A Fireworks Festival Reborn, 60 Local Characters Gather, and the Marine Expo is Set—Understanding How the City of Kure is Transitioning from a “Naval City” to a “Marine City” A Fireworks Festival Reborn, 60 Local Characters Gather, and the Marine Expo is Set—Understanding How the City of Kure i By Rei
May 19, 2026 The Station Front Library Sees a Tenfold Increase in Visitors, Minamoa Achieves Sales of 53.9 Billion Yen, and Road Subsidence Continues in Hiroshima Station Redevelopment: A Numerical Look at the “Light and Shadow” The Station Front Library Sees a Tenfold Increase in Visitors, Minamoa Achieves Sales of 53.9 Billion Yen, and Road Subs By Rei
May 18, 2026 Fires from Waste Burn 15 Hectares, Ship Dismantling Creates Smoke in the City—What is Happening in a Region Lacking a System for ‘Destruction’ Building Permits Are Strict. There Is Almost No System for Destruction. In the mountainous area of Fukuyama City, Hiros By Rei
May 17, 2026 Hanging Paintings in Barber Shops and Playing Strings in Temples: How ‘Non-Traditional Spaces’ Embrace Culture Hanging Paintings in Barber Shops and Playing Strings in Temples: How 'Non-Traditional Spaces' Embrace Culture Cultural By Rei
May 16, 2026 Bears Descend into Residential Areas, Schools Close, and High Schools Consolidate from 18 to 7 — What Happens in ‘Places Where People Have Withdrawn’ Title Bears Descend into Residential Areas, Schools Close, and High Schools Consolidate from 18 to 7 — What Happens in ' By Rei
May 15, 2026 The Shipbreaking Site and the Banks Financing Ships: The Kurosaki Fire Illuminates the Duality of “Dismantling and Building” The Shipbreaking Site and the Banks Financing Ships: The Kurosaki Fire Illuminates the Duality of "Dismantling and Build By Rei
May 14, 2026 Networking Events for Nursery Teachers, Japanese Language Classes for Foreigners, and Farming for the Socially Withdrawn—Who Supports Those Who Support Others? Networking Events for Nursery Teachers, Japanese Language Classes for Foreigners, and Farming for the Socially Withdrawn By Rei
May 13, 2026 Hirogin Partners with Osaki Kamijima, Hiroshima Andersen Supports Blueberries—The Shape of the Island’s Economy Circulating with ‘Continued Connections’ A Framework Built on an Island Without Bridges Osaki Kamijima has no bridges. It takes about 30 minutes by ferry from t By Rei
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
May 10, 2026 Aquariums Produce 4 Tons of Seawater Daily, New Rice Variety ZR1 Withstands High Temperatures, and Tea Fields Look Overseas—The Quiet Current State of “Reconstruction Technology” Aquariums Produce 4 Tons of Seawater Daily Instead of simply accepting nature as it is, we "reconstruct" it with our ow By Rei
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
May 2, 2026 The Return of Onomichi’s Clams After 12 Years, Cat Neutering, and the Full Opening of Shimanami—’Maintenance Time’ Shapes the Setouchi Landscape The Return of Onomichi's Clams After 12 Years, Cat Neutering, and the Full Opening of Shimanami—'Maintenance Time' Shape By Rei
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
April 7, 2026 The Disappearance of Service Points and the Integration of Hospitals: A New Map of Retreat in the Setouchi Region The Disappearance of Service Points and the Integration of Hospitals: A New Map of Retreat in the Setouchi Region The " By Rei
December 2, 2025 Man With a Knife Arrested at a Disney Hotel: The Shock That Struck the “Dreamland”—and What Lies Beneath On December 1, 2025, a corner of Tokyo Disney Resort (TDR)—a symbol of happiness and magic for countless people—suddenly transformed into a stage of real-world fear. By Honourway Asia Pacific Limited
March 15, 2024 World Insight Interview by Shunsuke Ochiai Vol.5 Richard a photographer who fell in love with Japan In this exclusive interview, we explore the fascinating world of Richard, a Swiss-born Italian photographer who turned his passion into a career. By Shunsuke Ochiai
September 30, 2021 Readings from Former BOJ Governor Shirakawa’s British Parliament Testimony Will the U.K. follow Japan into a downward spiral of low growth and low inflation despite continued quantitative easing (QE)? By Izuru Kato
May 22, 2026 The Shocking Drop in Music Production Costs: From 300,000 Yen to 5,000 Yen—How Spotify and Stability AI are Disrupting the Notion that ‘Creativity is Expensive’ Conclusion First The production cost of promotional content is about to drop by 98%. When local small and medium-sized By Kai
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