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Unfiltered On the Ground: The Olympics: Complex Feelings

Name: Max Power* Hometown: Newcastle, England Present City: Newcastle, England I’m from Newcastle, England, and next to where I live is a marine college that’s recognized worldwide for...

Unfiltered on the Ground: Traveler Thoughts

Name: Masatoshi Nishimura Hometown: Osaka, Japan Present City: Toronto, Canada The political issues that people care about are so different. I guess that in North America and...

Questions raised about progress, safety of Fukushima decontamination work

As radiation levels fell, public sector workers evacuated during the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster were ordered to return and push on with decontamination work....

Safe at Last: A Tunisian woman’s journey to freedom

It was on a basketball court that Nahed* finally knew she was safe. “A few days after coming to Japan, I wanted to play basketball,”...