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AIZU

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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Jul 10, 2023
Groups preserving folk performing arts in Fukushima struggle to find successors
Rules that had previously allowed only eldest sons to become dancers, and only men to become flutists and drummers, have been revised in some areas.
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Fukushima
Jul 11, 2022
Japanese research team develops app to help public discover new asteroids
The project team hopes people will help scour more than 700,000 images to find space objects that could collide with the Earth.
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JAPAN
Mar 2, 2016
3/11 victims 'feeling the sunshine' again through Aizu cotton initiative
A young community activist is endeavoring to achieve the double feat of giving a new lease on life to people displaced by the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and rejuvenating a withering traditional local industry.
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LIFE / Travel
Feb 17, 2013
Warm memories of an Aizu winterlude
It starts to snow soon after the train leaves Koriyama, and further inland at Aizu Wakamatsu the snow is knee deep. My hosts, Nobuyuki and Mikiko, are waiting at the station. I'm relieved to see they've brought boots for me.
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CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Jan 4, 2013
NHK spotlights gunslinging daughter of the north in yearlong Sunday drama
How to rebuild when you've lost everything? In the immediate aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, as many thousands of people in northeastern Japan sought to answer that question for themselves, public broadcaster NHK began looking for a historical figure whose story might provide some inspiration — someone whose life it could depict in the 2013 edition of its yearlong Sunday-evening taiga drama series.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on