The Great East Japan Earthquake: On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0, said to occur once every 1000 years, struck off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region. The resulting tsunami took the lives of more than 18,500 people and caused a nuclear accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma Town, Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture. A core meltdown occurred, causing hydrogen explosions at Units 1, 3 and 4, which severely damaged the reactor building, turbine building and surrounding facilities. The Japanese Government evacuated residents within a 20-km radius of the nuclear power plant. More than 100,000 people had to leave their homes. It was the most serious incident since the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. Hideo Tabuchi, the filmmaker at Taichi-Kikaku Theatre Company immediately went to the disaster area as a volunteer to physically move, shift and dig in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami. He paved the way for the whole company to perform in Minamisoma City as an act of solidarity with those who had lost so much. It was through this that the company started to collaborate with the local NPO ‘Learning Together Minamisoma’ and its Lead Representative Mikako Takahashi. It was how we, as authors of this chapter met, Yosuke Ohashi, body poetry artist, actor, applied drama practitioner and member of Taichi Kikaku and Shun Nakamura, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Dr Nakamura is now lead representative of ‘Learning Together Minamisoma’ and the long-term collaboration between the NPO and Taichi Kikaku Theatre continues. In this chapter, we present and reflect upon the support activities for community recovery using Performance in areas affected by the nuclear accident. We do this by inter-leafing the perspective of our two distinct fields, Performance and Neuroscience.

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Performance in the Context of Nuclear Fallout: The Great East Japan Earthquake

  • Yosuke Ohashi,
  • Shun Nakamura

摘要

The Great East Japan Earthquake: On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake of magnitude 9.0, said to occur once every 1000 years, struck off the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region. The resulting tsunami took the lives of more than 18,500 people and caused a nuclear accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma Town, Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture. A core meltdown occurred, causing hydrogen explosions at Units 1, 3 and 4, which severely damaged the reactor building, turbine building and surrounding facilities. The Japanese Government evacuated residents within a 20-km radius of the nuclear power plant. More than 100,000 people had to leave their homes. It was the most serious incident since the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. Hideo Tabuchi, the filmmaker at Taichi-Kikaku Theatre Company immediately went to the disaster area as a volunteer to physically move, shift and dig in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami. He paved the way for the whole company to perform in Minamisoma City as an act of solidarity with those who had lost so much. It was through this that the company started to collaborate with the local NPO ‘Learning Together Minamisoma’ and its Lead Representative Mikako Takahashi. It was how we, as authors of this chapter met, Yosuke Ohashi, body poetry artist, actor, applied drama practitioner and member of Taichi Kikaku and Shun Nakamura, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Dr Nakamura is now lead representative of ‘Learning Together Minamisoma’ and the long-term collaboration between the NPO and Taichi Kikaku Theatre continues. In this chapter, we present and reflect upon the support activities for community recovery using Performance in areas affected by the nuclear accident. We do this by inter-leafing the perspective of our two distinct fields, Performance and Neuroscience.