Ichie Watanabe Talk Series - Listen to the Voices of Fukushima

Ichie Watanabe Talk Series
Past Editions

The writer Ichie Watanabe began her talk series "Listen to the Voices of Fukushima" in the second-floor gallery of Session House on 7 March 2012, one year after the earthquake and the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. Each edition invites a guest - someone living in Fukushima, someone who was evacuated, someone who keeps reporting from there.

 

Below is the record of the editions held so far, with the original flyer for each. Click a flyer to see it larger. The flyers are in Japanese. Romanized names are provisional readings; the Japanese spelling is given alongside.

 

FlyerEditionDateGuest
 vol.551 Sep 2026Miwa Kato (加藤美和), Hagumi Hori (堀はぐみ) and Yuka Irei (伊礼悠花), young activists working on immigration detention, poverty and disability
Flyer for vol.54vol.5425 Jul 2026Miharu Takamura (高村美春), storyteller, Minamisoma
Flyer for vol.53vol.5315 Apr 2026Yoshiharu Monma (門馬好春), chair of the interim storage facility landowners' association, Okuma
Flyer for vol.52vol.5231 Jan 2026Yukiko Mihara (三原由起子), poet, from Namie
Flyer for vol.51vol.517 Nov 2025Takayuki Sasaki (佐々木孝之), former worker at the nuclear plant, Odaka, Minamisoma
Flyer for vol.50vol.5017 Aug 2025Terumi Kataoka (片岡輝美), head of the Aizu Radiation Information Center, Aizu-Wakamatsu
Flyer for vol.49vol.4929 May 2025Yukiko Mihara (三原由起子), poet, from Namie
Flyer for vol.48vol.4822 Feb 2025Kunihiko Konno (今野邦彦), editor of the Akogi village record, Akogi, Namie
Flyer for vol.47vol.4712 Oct 2024Kumi Kanome (鹿目久美), of the Kaachanzu respite-camp group, evacuated from Otama to Sagamihara
Flyer for vol.46vol.4623 Jun 2024Yumi Chiba (千葉由美), head of the Iwaki mothers' group investigating early radiation exposure, Iwaki
Flyer for vol.45vol.452 Feb 2024Sugie Tanji (丹治杉江), lead plaintiff of the Gunma compensation lawsuit, evacuated from Iwaki to Gunma
Flyer for vol.44vol.448 Sep 2023Mizue Kanno (菅野みずえ), storyteller, Tsushima, Namie
Flyer for vol.43vol.435 Feb 2023Mikako Takahashi (高橋美加子), chair of Hokuyosha Cleaning, Haramachi, Minamisoma
 vol.4229 Oct 2022Keiko Aota (青田惠子), fabric-picture artist, Odaka, Minamisoma
Flyer for vol.41vol.412 Jul 2022Fumio Horikawa (堀川文夫), cram-school teacher and author of the picture book "A Letter to Mother", evacuated to Fuji, Shizuoka
Flyer for vol.40 特別編vol.40 特別編29 Apr 2022Miwako Inoue (井上美和子), writer and reader from Namie - solo reading "Honjimoyo" (B1F Studio)
Flyer for vol.39vol.3920 Feb 2022Miharu Takamura (高村美春), storyteller, Minamisoma
Flyer for vol.38vol.385 Dec 2021Nobuyoshi Ito (伊藤延由), former manager of Iitate Farm, known as the radiation-monitoring grandfather, Iitate
Flyer for vol.37vol.3721 Jun 2021Shoko Monma (門馬昌子), former high-school English teacher, evacuated from Namie to Tokyo
Flyer for vol.36vol.3621 Mar 2021Hikari Hoshi (星ひかり), poet and reader, Koriyama
Flyer for 番外編番外編18 Oct 2020Ichie Watanabe (渡辺一枝), writer - "Let us talk about Fukushima"
Flyer for vol.34vol.3422 Feb 2020Akemi Shima (島明美), head of the citizens' group Mirai ni Tsunageru, Date
Flyer for vol.33vol.3320 Dec 2019Hideto Yokoyama (横山秀人), head of the Iitate Network and administrative scrivener, Iitate
Flyer for vol.32vol.3227 Sep 2019Megumi Okada (岡田めぐみ), founder of Musashino Smile, evacuated from Fukushima City to Tokyo with her children
Flyer for vol.31vol.317 Apr 2019Shigeru Sasaki (佐々木茂), deputy head of the Tsushima plaintiffs and former town councillor, Namie
Flyer for vol.30vol.3025 Jan 2019Hiromu Murata (村田弘), lead plaintiff of the Kanagawa lawsuit and former newspaper journalist, evacuated from Odaka to Kanagawa
Flyer for vol.29vol.2927 Nov 2018Kenji Sekiba (関場健治), vegetable grower, evacuated from Tsushima, Namie to Ibaraki
Flyer for vol.28vol.2817 Aug 2018Miyako Kumamoto (熊本美彌子), organic farmer and plaintiff against TEPCO and the state, evacuated from Tamura to Tokyo
Flyer for vol.27vol.2726 May 2018Harue Sanpei (三瓶春江), of the Tsushima plaintiffs, Tsushima, Namie
Flyer for vol.26vol.2621 Jan 2018Naoko Suzuki (鈴木直子), head of the support group Pororon, evacuated from Iwaki to Saitama with her children
Flyer for vol.25vol.2520 Oct 2017Norio Kimura (木村紀夫), of the search team Team Yuna, from Okuma, now in Hakuba, Nagano
Flyer for vol.24vol.245 Aug 2017Noriko Matsumoto (松本徳子), co-representative of the Evacuees' Cooperative Center, evacuated from Koriyama to Kanagawa with her children
Flyer for vol.23vol.2327 May 2017Kenichi Hasegawa (長谷川健一), dairy farmer, Iitate
Flyer for vol.22vol.2224 Feb 2017Mizuho Sugeno (菅野瑞穂), founder of Kibou no Tane Company, organic farmer in Nihonmatsu
Flyer for vol.21vol.2118 Oct 2016Sumio Konno (今野寿美雄), plaintiff in the children's radiation lawsuit, Namie
Flyer for vol.20vol.2023 Jul 2016Hiroshi Kanno (菅野晢), head of the group seeking a new home for Iitate villagers, Iitate
Flyer for vol.19vol.197 May 2016Eiko Kanno (菅野榮子), subject of the film "The Mothers of Iitate", Iitate
Flyer for vol.18vol.188 Mar 2016Tokuun Tanaka (田中徳雲), priest of Dokeiji temple, Odaka, Minamisoma
Flyer for vol.17vol.1711 Nov 2015Kyoko Tanaka (田中京子), Minamisoma city councillor and founder of a farmers' market
Flyer for vol.16vol.1623 Aug 2015Yoshihiro Watanabe (渡部義弘), high-school teacher, Fukushima
Flyer for vol.15vol.1528 Jun 2015Masaharu Fujishima (藤島昌治), head of a temporary housing association, evacuated from Odaka to Kashima
Flyer for vol.14vol.143 Mar 2015Tetsuo Sekiguchi (関口鉄夫), environmental scientist
Flyer for vol.13vol.1312 Dec 2014Ryota Kusano (草野良太), director of the NPO Frontier Minamisoma
Flyer for vol.12vol.1230 Aug 2014Kenji Kamata (鎌田研司) and Kinko Koyama (小山謹子), volunteers working in Minamisoma
Flyer for vol.11vol.1125 Jun 2014Shigeki Ota (太田茂樹), of the NPO Sonotsu-mori, Marumori, Miyagi
Flyer for vol.10vol.102 Apr 2014Masaaki Sakai (酒井政秋), organiser of a villagers' dialogue group, evacuated from Iitate to Date
Flyer for vol.9vol.917 Feb 2014Takao Otome (大留隆雄), Rokkaku Support Team, Haramachi, Minamisoma
Flyer for vol.8vol.88 Dec 2013Kenichi Hasegawa (長谷川健一), dairy farmer and head of the Maeda district, Iitate - talk and screening of his film "Iitate: My Record"
Flyer for vol.7vol.731 Aug 2013Takayuki Ueno (上野敬幸), of the search group Fukko Hamadan, Kaibama, Minamisoma
Flyer for vol.6vol.630 Jun 2013Tomiko Watanabe (渡邊とみ子), chair of the Kaachan no Chikara project, evacuated from Iitate to Fukushima City
Flyer for vol.5vol.54 Mar 2013Tokiko Suzuki (鈴木時子) and Yoko Arakawa (荒川陽子), Rokkaku Support Team, Minamisoma
Flyer for vol.4vol.415 Dec 2012Norio Kimura (木村紀夫), evacuated from Okuma to Hakuba, Nagano
Flyer for vol.3vol.328 Sep 2012Shigeki Ota (太田茂樹), of the farm and miso workshop SOYA, Marumori, Miyagi
Flyer for vol.2vol.25 Jun 2012Miyuki Ichizawa (市澤美由紀), of the coffee house Aguri, evacuated from Iitate to Fukushima City
Flyer for vol.1vol.17 Mar 2012Takao Otome (大留隆雄), who runs the Rokkaku business hotel in Minamisoma, and Masami Yoshizawa (吉沢正巳), cattle farmer in Namie

 

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