WEEK 3

Environment | WEEK 3 Feb 17, 2013

Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc

by Winifred Bird

For Yuji Hoshino, mushrooms were a way of life. The 50-year-old farmer grew up watching his father raise shiitake mushrooms on their land at the foot of the mountains in Sano, southern Tochigi Prefecture. Later, he became the one to yearly cut about 15,000 logs, ...

Life | WEEK 3 Feb 17, 2013

Tracing time's passing through faces of Tokyo

by Tomoko Otake

Petri Artturi Asikainen would regularly accost strangers in Tokyo, on the streets, in parks or bars and on trains. With a high-end Nikon D3 digital SLR in his hands, the lanky and bespectacled Finn would ask — somewhat timidly summoning one of the few ...