Month: April 2012

  • Fukushima, one year on.

    The word “irradiated” has such visceral power. We imagine our guts made luminous by Ibaraki spinach, our cells scarred by Futaba beef, our hair and teeth breaking free of their moorings due to the fallout. The invisibility of radiation polarizes reactions to it: people are either indifferent, or terrified. The former, noticing no changes in…