by letran1 | Jan 28, 2018 | Energy, Pollution
What Once was Yanaka is now left to be forgotten. Tucked away in low, low plains of the Watarase River Basin. Hidden from the snow streaked mountains. Hours to arrive, hours to get back, time used to reflect on the lives that once lived and tended to this land and...
by Upjohn Margaret | Jan 28, 2018 | Energy, Pollution
There are two sides of the components of the global energy problem: consumption and generation. Our field trips in Japan have illustrated how we might tackle both sides of the issue. On January 11, 2018, our classes visited the Non-Electric Company. The founder...
by Larson Paige | Jan 27, 2018 | Energy
When you are not near a crisis, it is easy to hear about it on the news, declare to yourself how sad it is, and then dismiss it from your mind. This is how Fukushima was for me for years. I remember hearing about it when it happened, but I must admit that in the past...
by Hannah Larry | Jan 21, 2018 | Energy, Tokyo
While international travel always brings one into contact with new foods, new people, and new ways of life, the diversity of our world is never so striking as the moment where you think, this would never happen where I come from. I’ve had a couple of those moments in...
