About
In 2016, the miraculous film Grüsse aus Fukushima was released in Germany and appeared at various international film festivals. It expresses the essence of anxiety and hope seen in ordinary people's everyday lives around Fukushima Nuclear Plant no. 1 through the dramatic story of conflict and sympathy between an old Geisha woman and a young German girl. They will analyze how they reflect on Fukushima and face their ghosts, bringing the nuclear disaster back into public discussion.
Jun'ichi Isomae is a Professor of Religious Studies at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken). He received his Ph.D in religious studies from Tokyo University. Previously, he has been a visiting professor and research fellow at Tübingen University, the University of Zurich, Ruhr University Bochum, SOAS, and Harvard. In 2014, he published Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State and Shinto (Bril, Korean and Japanese version were also published) which was the final candidates at AAR Excellent Award. Among his other books are Japanese Mythology (Routledge, 2009, Japanese too), Disquiet Voices from the Dead in Northeast Japan (Japanese 2015, English forthcoming).
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