I'm not alone in finding Japanese museums about earthquakes and tsunamis interesting and impactful; I know my friend Catherine who travelled with me in Took last month is the same. This episode will test out whether it's just the two of us, or if more of you share this feeling - a yearning to understand more about these kinds of disasters, to get to know more about the human stories behind them, and a keen desire to share in the "hope tourism" equation of the scenarios.
In this episode, I talk about three parts of my recent trip to Japan that fit under this idea of "hope tourism" - and not "dark tourism". As well as visiting the "Kaze no Denwa", we spent many hours at two new museums in northern Japan: the Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum in Rikuzentakata, Iwate, and the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum in Futaba, Fukushima. We both found these visits so impactful, and I'm still mulling over a lot of what I saw and learnt there to this day.
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Book Club 05: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
196 When Your Passport Goes Missing
195 Encounters with Locals in Central Asia
Book Club 04: Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajeshi
194 Trans-Siberian Train Journeys
193 Travel Firsts and Transformations
192 Travel in Dangerous Places
191 Travellers with a Disability
190 Covid-19 Thoughts from Western Australia
Book Club 03: On the Plain of Snakes by Paul Theroux
189 Unusual Ways to Meet the Locals
188 Getting Sick on Your Travels
187 Historical Connections and Travel
186 Travel Mishaps
185 Slow Travel Benefits
Book Club 02: The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell
184 Antarctic Travels
183 Justifying Travel in the Climate Change Era
182 Travel and Personal Development
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