Visiting Iitate Village and Nihonmutsu City

Today, we had the sobering experience of visiting the Fukushima prefecture in Northern Japan. On March 11th, 2011, Japan was devastated by the strongest earthquake it has ever experienced with an astounding magnitude of 9.0Mw. This mega-earthquake created a tsunami...

Altering Nature: Nasu Canal

Within our first week at the Asian Rural Institute (ARI), we were taken on a tour of the Nasu canal and learned of its importance. The Nasu canal provides accessible water to the adjacent Nasu plain which enables farmers to irrigate and farm the land. But this was not...