For Takumi Kawaguchi's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
In a once-booming whaling community in the northeast, an artisan has managed to keep alive a whale-tooth crafting tradition after his store was destroyed by the mega-quake and tsunami in 2011. Carver Masayuki Chijimatsu, 65, now sells seals and accessories made from the teeth of ...
With almost 2½ years having passed since the Fukushima No. 1 plant imploded, medical schools are seeking to improve the treatment of people exposed to the radiation spewed by the wrecked reactors. Makiko Orita, a 26-year-old Nagasaki University graduate student, is in the vanguard of ...
There is a section of Shiroyama Elementary School, run by the city of Nagasaki, that does not match the rest of the modern building. This section has been preserved to remind visitors of the devastating damage inflicted by the atomic bombing on Aug. 9, 1945. Located ...
A diary written by a 14-year-old girl after she was caught up in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, is regarded as one of the most telling memoirs of the event. The publication of the diary after a censorial struggle with the ...
