Hiroshima - WORLD INSIGHT

August 28, 2026
Light Taxis, Autonomous Buses, and Ride-Sharing Taxis: A Fall That Rewrites the ‘Minimum Unit of Mobility’ in Setouchi

Vehicles Become Smaller, Precision of the System Comes Under Scrutiny This autumn in Setouchi, three types of "small ve

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August 25, 2026
Foreignness within the University, Decisions within the Factory, Cross-Border in the Classroom—The Three Mechanisms Gathering People in Higashi-Hiroshima Focus on ‘Who to Facilitate’

Three Mechanisms Operating Simultaneously: A Look at the Facts In Higashi-Hiroshima City, three distinctly different mo

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August 23, 2026
AI Welfare Support × 70 Tourism Ambassadors × Postal Office Outsourcing — Edajima Tests the Design Philosophy of ‘Decentralizing Administration’

Population of 20,000 Island Questions the 'Form of Administration' Edajima City, located in Hiroshima Bay, has a popula

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August 22, 2026
Increase of 30 Unmanned JR Stations, Rise in Kintai Bridge Fees, and Further Delay in Renovation of Shin-Iwakuni Station — Who Benefits from the Simultaneous Progress of ‘We Want You to Come’ and ‘We Are Making It Inconvenient’?

Same Week, Three News Stories Last week, three significant news stories related to transportation and tourism in the Hi

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August 21, 2026
Drone Film Festival × Disaster Prevention Food Truck × Heavy Rain Disaster Heritage Center — Who Does the ‘System of Remembering’ Make Easier?

The Memory of Disasters Fades if Left Alone. That’s Why We Need a 'System' Twelve years have passed since the Hiroshima

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August 16, 2026
Testimonies from a 98-Year-Old, Colorized Photos, and Visits to Semipalatinsk—How Many Layers Are There in the Mechanism of Delivering Memory?

98歳の証言、カラー化写真、セミパラチンスク訪問——「記憶を届ける仕組み」は何層あるか記憶は、放っておけば消える。個人の体験として閉じたまま、身体とともに失われる。だからこそ「届ける」には仕組みがいる——声を拾う仕組み、像を変換する仕組

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August 15, 2026
Colorizing Photos and Building Stations in VR: Two Technologies Recreating ‘Places That No Longer Exist’ and the Questions Behind Them

Colorizing Photos and Building Stations in VR: Two Technologies Recreating 'Places That No Longer Exist' and the Questio

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August 12, 2026
Taxi Company Sends 20-Ton Truck to Kumamoto, Disaster Relief Nurses Deployed from Outside the Prefecture—How Hiroshima’s ‘Support System’ is Functioning

When a City That Received Support Becomes a Supporter In July 2018, Hiroshima suffered extensive damage from the heavy

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August 11, 2026
One Planting, Two Harvests: AI Heat Stroke Prevention, Underwater Drones—The ‘Unassuming Technologies’ of Setouchi are Quietly Transforming the Field

One does not need to be flashy. Yet, the field is starting to turn. In the Setouchi area, several technologies are simu

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August 9, 2026
Hiroshima Bank Ends ATM Passbook Transactions, Peace Cycle Suspended, Premium Vouchers Left Unused—The ‘Unreachable Systems’ Quietly Accumulating in Rural Areas

Three "Unreachable Systems" Reflecting a Larger Issue Hiroshima Bank has announced that it will phase out passbook tran

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August 8, 2026
Four Dead in House Fire in Higashi-Hiroshima; 90-Year-Old Woman Dies of Heatstroke in Etajima—Reading the Gaps in the System Before the ‘Invisible Isolation’

Deep Midnight at 3:30 AM and Morning at 10:30 AM—What Two Timeframes Reflect In the early hours of the 5th, a house in

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August 7, 2026
The One Who Reads 816 Names, The One Who Writes a List of 4,393 Names—When “The Handwork of Memory” Becomes a System

Voice and Pen: What They Carry In the summer of Hiroshima, two forms of "handwork" are quietly at play. One involves r

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August 6, 2026
When the ‘Speaker’ Changes: Remembering Keiko Sasamori, Neru Nagahama’s Drama, and the Structural Shift Reflected in the Hiroshima Peace Declaration Outline

As Hiroshima approaches the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing, three significant events have coincided almost simul

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August 5, 2026
Kure’s Fireworks Postponed to Autumn, Onomichi Launches 13,000 Shells, Kishiura Celebrates 110th Anniversary—The Different Mechanisms Behind the Decision to Hold Festivals

The Same Setouchi, Three Divergent Decisions In the summer of 2024, the landscape surrounding fireworks in the Setouchi

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August 4, 2026
A List of 23,000 Names, the Footsteps of International Students, and an AI Heritage Symposium—Whose Hands Will Carry the Memory of the Atomic Bomb Next?

A Stack of Paper, Human Footprints, and Digital Voices—Three Circuits Operating Simultaneously At the Hiroshima Interna

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August 3, 2026
The Day Shogo Akiyama Invited Single-Parent Families: In Iwakuni, Child Support Allowance Was Overpaid by 2.95 Million Yen—On the Distance Between “Visible Support” and “Invisible Systems”

The Day 46 Parent-Child Pairs Were at the Stadium, While the Ledger of One Household Showed Distorted Numbers In 2024,

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August 2, 2026
Names Engraved on the Victims’ Register, the Ukrainian Night Sky, 75 Hours of Prayer—The Circuit of ‘Inheritance’ is Not a Straight Line

A researcher is added to the register. A foreign commentator reflects the night sky. Two cities are connected by 75 hour

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August 1, 2026
One Million Yen to Decorate the Station, Goats Grazing, High School Students on Stage — Iwakuni Prepares Its Entrance While Remaining “Less Than a Tourist Destination”

Who Will Prepare the Entrance? Tourist destinations have a "face." The atmosphere upon stepping off the train, the colo

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July 31, 2026
Artificial Seedling Cultivation of Oysters, PTA Pool Opening, and Shopping Street Crafting – “Without Someone Organizing, Nothing Works” in Setouchi’s Summer

Visible Arrangements of Summer - Three Scenes from Setouchi As summer arrives, those who are part of the "operational s

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July 30, 2026
Micron’s New Facility, Mazda Hiring 630 People, Transition to Core City—Can Higashihiroshima, Overlapping with Semiconductors, Automobiles, and Universities, Become ‘Another Hiroshima’?

Three Gears Starting to Turn Simultaneously A semiconductor manufacturing facility is being constructed, an automobile

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July 29, 2026
Artificial Seedling Cultivation of Oysters, Release of Sea Bream, and Campylobacter Outbreaks—How Much Can the Setouchi ‘Food Safety Network’ Endure Under Extreme Heat?

Sea Water Temperature: What Breaks and What Emerges When It Rises by 1°C The mechanisms supporting the dining tables of

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July 28, 2026
39.3°C in Fuchu, Fireworks Moved to September, Pools Closed—Extreme Heat is Redefining Hiroshima’s ‘Summer Calendar’

39.3°C in Fuchu, Fireworks Moved to September, Pools Closed—Extreme Heat is Redefining Hiroshima's 'Summer Calendar' A

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July 26, 2026
80 Years Since the Bombing: When ‘Conveying’ Transforms into ‘Creating’ — The Structural Shift Illustrated by Miwa Nishikawa’s War Orphan Film, the Colorization Project, and Goshiki Theater’s ‘New Peace’

80 Years Since the Bombing: When 'Conveying' Transforms into 'Creating' — The Structural Shift Illustrated by Miwa Nishi

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July 25, 2026
Fireworks Move to September, Pool Closes After 48 Years, and Memorial Service Shifts to Morning—Extreme Heat Quietly Rewrites the ‘Summer Event Calendar’

Fireworks Move to September, Pool Closes After 48 Years, and Memorial Service Shifts to Morning—Extreme Heat Quietly Rew

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July 24, 2026
A Doctor’s Memoir, High School Students’ Paintings, and a Copperplate Picture Book—The Techniques for Preserving Atomic Bomb Experiences Are Quietly Diverging

A Doctor's Memoir, High School Students' Paintings, and a Copperplate Picture Book—The Techniques for Preserving Atomic

By Rei
July 22, 2026
The Gibi Line’s Demonstration Experiment Reveals ‘Economic Impact Below 40%’—The Gap Between Riding and Using

The Passengers Came, But They Didn't Get Off in the Town A demonstration experiment conducted on a section of the JR Gi

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July 21, 2026
Handwoven Textiles from Laos, Clams from Onomichi, and Ambassadors from Etajima—Who Does the “Small Economic Sphere” Serve?

Mechanisms Reveal Faces Due to Their Small Scale Handwoven fabrics from a mountain village in Laos are displayed on the

By Rei
July 20, 2026
Half a Century of Free Cricket Distribution, 50 Years of the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s 71st Air Squadron, and 80 Years of Memorial Services—Exploring the Mechanisms Behind Continuity

50 Years of Continuity Requires 50 Years of Planning The continuation of something for a year can be attributed to enth

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July 19, 2026
Miyajima Fireworks Cancelled Again in 2026, Iwakuni to Feature 2-Shaku Fireworks, and Onomichi to Hold Sumiyoshi Fireworks – Divergence Between Towns with Ongoing Fireworks Festivals and Those That Have Stopped in Setouchi

Under the Same Setouchi Night Sky, a Divide Between Light and Shadow Three towns facing the Seto Inland Sea—Miyajima, I

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July 18, 2026
Ono’s Government-Backed Bid Rigging, Death of Former Hiroshima City Credit Union Chairman, Bankruptcy of Payment Processing Company ‘Zen Toshi’—Trust in Local Economy Shaken Simultaneously in Three Areas

Public Procurement, Finance, and Payment Processing—Three "Trust Infrastructures" Are Simultaneously Strained Three sig

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July 17, 2026
Tents, Trains, and Testimonies: Who is the ‘System for Delivering Memories’ Designed to Ease as We Approach the 80th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing?

127 Countries Are Being Made a Place to Sit In Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park, a crane is lifting the framework for a

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July 16, 2026
A Bombed Tram Runs, the Memorial Tower’s Registry is Corrected, and a Film on Korean Hibakusha Makes Its Debut—How the Vehicles Carrying ‘Memory’ are Designed in the 80th Year

Three Mediums, One Question In 2025, Hiroshima will mark the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing. In this milestone

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July 14, 2026
Job Fair for Bus Drivers: Indonesians Obtain Licenses as Mukuhara High School Halts Recruitment—The Triangle of ‘Lack of People’

Job Fair for Bus Drivers: Indonesians Obtain Licenses as Mukuhara High School Halts Recruitment—The Triangle of 'Lack of

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July 13, 2026
Record Number of Tourists, Over 20,000 Hotel Rooms, Half of Premium Coupons Left Unsold—Why Do the Economies of “Visitors” and “Residents” in Hiroshima Overlap?

14.76 Million Visitors, Yet Half of Coupons Remain Unsold In 2023, Hiroshima City welcomed 14.76 million tourists, an i

By Rei
July 12, 2026
Record 14.76 Million Tourists, Decline in School Trip Students — The Divergence of ‘Those Who Come’ and ‘Those Who No Longer Come’ in Hiroshima

Record 14.76 Million Tourists, Decline in School Trip Students — The Divergence of 'Those Who Come' and 'Those Who No Lo

By Rei
July 11, 2026
JR Freight Vehicle Depot Undergoes Major Renovation After 83 Years, Restoration of Nine Bridges on the Misasa River, Landslide on Ikuchijima Island—The Lifespan of Hiroshima’s ‘Supporting Infrastructure’ is Concurrently Approaching Its Limits

JR Freight Vehicle Depot Undergoes Major Renovation After 83 Years, Restoration of Nine Bridges on the Misasa River, Lan

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July 10, 2026
A Discussion on the 100th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing: Who is Designing the ‘Vessel of Memory’?

Memory Will Fade Without a Means to Convey It 2045 — the year marking the 100th anniversary of the atomic bombing. What

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July 9, 2026
Inviting Iranian Families and Syrian Reconstruction Officials to Hiroshima: A Blueprint for the Diplomatic Mechanism of ‘Inviting to the Atomic Bombed City’

Three Overlapping Invitations In July 2025, three invitations addressed to different recipients arrived simultaneously

By Rei
July 8, 2026
Opening Bookstores Amid Publishing Slumps: New Ventures in Vacant Spaces in Setouchi

Someone Stands Where Another Has Departed Something a bit unusual is happening in two towns in Setouchi. In Hiroshima

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July 7, 2026
15 Performances of Kamishibai, 82 Trainees Aged 11 to 83, High School Students’ English Speeches—How Many Layers Are There in the Mechanism of ‘Passing on Memory’?

Same City, Three Mechanisms Operating Simultaneously In the city of Hiroshima, three mechanisms for 'passing on memory'

By Rei
July 6, 2026
1.5 Trillion Yen Semiconductor Factory and the Doubling of Bus Fares in 20 Years—Investments That Reach Hiroshima and Those That Don’t

1.5 Trillion Yen Semiconductor Factory and the Doubling of Bus Fares in 20 Years—Investments That Reach Hiroshima and Th

By Rei
July 5, 2026
A List of 816 Remains, a Violin from A-Bombed Trees, and the Voices of Bearers—Who Does the ‘System for Delivering Memory’ Serve?

40 Years of Updates Reflected in the List In 2024, Hiroshima City sent a list of remains interred at the Atomic Bomb Me

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July 4, 2026
Ono’s Bid Rigging Scandal: Mayor’s Pay Cut Rejected as ‘Too Lenient’—When the Backbone of Water Supply Breaks

Ono's Bid Rigging Scandal: Mayor's Pay Cut Rejected as 'Too Lenient'—When the Backbone of Water Supply Breaks Turning o

By Rei
July 2, 2026
27 Years After the Debris Flow, This Year’s Pond Collapse, and the First Level 4 Alert — Has Hiroshima’s “Memory of Flooding” Transformed into a System?

80 People in Silent Prayer and the Alerts That Sounded in the Same Week On June 29, 2023, about 80 people gathered at t

By Rei
July 1, 2026
The Shimanami Kaido Stopped for 40 Hours, the Hyoshima Maru Retired, and the Kure Line Came to a Halt—On the Fragility of the Connections Between the Islands and the Mainland in the Setouchi Region

The Bridges Stopped, the Ferries Disappeared, and the Railways Fell Silent This Summer At the end of June, during one w

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June 30, 2026
The Return of Obstetrics to the Island and the Arrival of a Brazilian Youth in the Housing Complex: A Story of Delivering People to ‘Places Where No One Is’

The Return of Obstetrics to the Island and the Arrival of a Brazilian Youth in the Housing Complex Delivering people to

By Rei
June 29, 2026
The Disappearance of ‘Chairs’ in a Shrinking Town: The Blueprint of a Withdrawal Strategy Revealed by the Merger of Etajima, Police Station Reorganization, and Ambulance Shortages

The Disappearance of 'Chairs' in a Shrinking Town: The Blueprint of a Withdrawal Strategy Revealed by the Merger of Etaj

By Rei
June 28, 2026
Heavy Rain Halts Shimanami, Shinkansen Stops, Nishikigawa Railway Ceases Operations—How Many Threads Hold Together the Connections in Setouchi?

Three Lines Disappeared on the Same Day When heavy rain falls, lines disappear from the map of Setouchi. The Shimanami

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June 27, 2026
The Caretaker of the Flower Bed, the Person Standing Before the Bridge Beam, the Hibakusha at the Lectern—Where is the Structure that Supports ‘Continuity’?

10 Years of Maintaining a Flower Bed In the Yagi district of Asaminami Ward, Hiroshima City, the neighborhood associati

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June 26, 2026
Names of 11 Prosecutorial Review Committee Members Leaked — Who Will Protect the Mechanism for Citizen Participation in Justice?

Names of 11 Prosecutorial Review Committee Members Leaked — Who Will Protect the Mechanism for Citizen Participation in

By Rei
June 25, 2026
Koji Morisaki Steps Down, Shingo Senda Becomes Youth Chairman — What Are the “People” of Sanfrecce Turning Outside the Club?

Club Members Becoming Gears in the Community Koji Morisaki, the club ambassador of Sanfrecce Hiroshima, is stepping dow

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June 24, 2026
Flood Training in Underground Parking Lots, Instant Sharing of Disaster Apps, and Disaster Education in Kumano: What Has Changed in Preparedness for the Next Heavy Rain Since Seven Years Ago?

2018 July: Hiroshima Was Overwhelmed by the "Unexpected" 271 dead or missing, 6,758 houses completely destroyed—these f

By Rei
June 23, 2026
Mayor Matsui Announces Candidacy for Fifth Term, Maintains 64 Council Members, and Reviews Highway Toll System—Who Will Update Hiroshima’s ‘System’?

Three Overlapping Judgments This Spring: Questions to Ask Hiroshima's mayor is gearing up for a fifth term, the prefect

By Rei
June 22, 2026
700 Local History Lectures, 50 Years of Beach Cleaning, 80th Birthday Celebrations—Deconstructing the Mechanism of Continuity

派手に始まったものは、だいたい静かに終わる There are many news stories about things that "begin" in the community. Grants have been awarded,

By Rei
June 21, 2026
The Worst Year for Special Fraud: Police Employee Leaks Victim Names, Banker Stops 30 Million Yen—Who is Destroying and Who is Supporting the ‘Infrastructure of Trust’?

26.68 Billion Yen Disappeared—What Hiroshima's Special Fraud Asks Us In 2023, the amount of damage caused by special fr

By Rei
June 20, 2026
Genomic Analysis of Second-Generation Hibakusha, Diary Stopped on August 5, Mistakes in Memorial Lists—The Time It Takes for ‘Records’ to Find People

Records Are Waiting—Until They Reach the Right Recipients There are three "records." One is genetic information interpr

By Rei
June 19, 2026
PFAS, Mass Death of Oysters, Design Flaws in Erosion Control—When ‘Water’ Breaks Down, Where Does Life in Setouchi Begin to Crumble?

PFAS, Mass Death of Oysters, Design Flaws in Erosion Control—When 'Water' Breaks Down, Where Does Life in Setouchi Begin

By Rei
June 18, 2026
The Price of Sardines Soars, and Cherry Trees Bend with Fruit—The Differences in the Mechanisms of the Sea and Mountains Reflected in the Same Early Summer ‘Season’

The Same June: The Sea is Bitter, and the Mountains are Smiling In June in Hiroshima, there are two "openings." The sma

By Rei
June 17, 2026
Fuchu Town Becomes a City, and Otake City Elects a New Mayor After 20 Years — What Changes in Daily Life When the ‘Framework’ of Local Governments Shifts?

What Changes in Daily Life When the 'Framework' of Local Governments Shifts? About 70 residents gathered for an explana

By Rei
June 16, 2026
Training Crew Members In-House, Eight Bus Companies Collaborating, and Dogs Keeping Watch Over the City—Three Experiments in Setouchi Filling the Gaps Through Innovative Structures

Title Training Crew Members In-House, Eight Bus Companies Collaborating, and Dogs Keeping Watch Over the City—Three Expe

By Rei
June 15, 2026
Violins from A-Bomb Trees, Hair of the Deceased at the Memorial, Youth Volunteers—A Quiet ‘Memory Custody System’ is Passing Through Generations

Three Gears Moving Simultaneously in Hiroshima: Sounds, Corrected Records, and Standing People Something a bit mysterio

By Rei
June 14, 2026
The Questioners Are Quietly Changing — A Reflection on Mr. Minomaki’s Statement, the High School Peace Ambassadors’ Inauguration Ceremony, and the Visit of Atomic Bomb Survivor Veterans’ Families to Hiroshima

The Questioners Are Quietly Changing — A Reflection on Mr. Minomaki's Statement, the High School Peace Ambassadors' Inau

By Rei
June 13, 2026
A Maternity Clinic Opens in Etajima, Hiroshima Electric Railway Drops Conductors, and Agricultural High School Crosses the Line of ‘Command and Control’—Revisiting the Question of ‘Where to Place People’ in Three Different Contexts

The Stories of Three "Deployments" Arriving in the Same Week A maternity clinic has opened in Etajima City. This is the

By Rei
June 12, 2026
Small Sardine Catch Hits Five-Year High, While Whitebait Faces Deficit with Just 200 Kilograms Landed—A Structural Divide Between ‘Rotating Fishing’ and ‘Non-Rotating Fishing’ in the Same Seto Inland Sea

Same Sea, Same Morning—Yet the Atmosphere at the Port is Completely Different In June, Hiroshima Bay. Before dawn, a fl

By Rei
June 11, 2026
PFAS, Bears at the Zoo, Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease Alert—Who is Visualizing Hiroshima’s ‘Invisible Risks’?

The numbers are rising, wildlife is crossing boundaries, and viruses are touching children's hands. None of these are st

By Rei
June 10, 2026
Nakahara from Development, Publicly Selected Registrars, High School Peace Ambassadors—What Happens on the Ground When the ‘Entry Changes’?

Entry is Different, but the Standing Place is the Same Three intriguing developments have emerged from the city of Hiro

By Rei
June 9, 2026
A Semiconductor Factory Arrives, Dassai Builds a Brewery, and APA Hotel Opens — The View of Living Next to Massive Investments

A Town Where Hundreds of Billions of Yen Flow, Yet Power Outages Occur A new building by Micron is being constructed in

By Rei
June 5, 2026
Public Call for Registrars of Atomic Bomb Victims: What Changes When Inheritance Becomes a System?

Public Call for Registrars of Atomic Bomb Victims: What Changes When Inheritance Becomes a System? Each Stroke Holds a

By Rei
June 4, 2026
Abandonment of the Flying Boat Museum, Third Year of the Sake Project, and a Meat Specialist as Tourism Ambassador—How Will Iwakuni Become a City That Sustains Itself?

Abandonment of the Flying Boat Museum—What the "Failure to Build" Tells Us The disappearance of a 3 billion yen "box" h

By Rei
June 3, 2026
Why is Hiroshima City’s ‘Attraction’ Weakening? Worst Outflow, Lackluster Premium Coupons, and the Fifth Highest Population Decline Nationwide

Why is Hiroshima City's 'Attraction' Weakening? Worst Outflow, Lackluster Premium Coupons, and the Fifth Highest Populat

By Rei
June 2, 2026
Doubling Noise, Unannounced Arrivals, New Troop Deployments: Visualizing the ‘Quiet Burden Increase’ at Iwakuni Base Through Numbers

Doubling Noise, Unannounced Arrivals, New Troop Deployments: Visualizing the 'Quiet Burden Increase' at Iwakuni Base Thr

By Rei
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

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May 7, 2026
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