MOVING FORWARD: Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake

  • Sunday, March 04, 2012
  • Sunday, April 15, 2012
  • Fowler Museum at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA)
Photo: March 12, 2011 2pm. A woman carries an elderly woman on her back. After the tsunami, the city is unrecognizable, Minami-Sanriku-cho, Miyagi Prefecture. (C) Courtesy of The Kahoku Shimpo
March 4, 2012 to April 15, 2012
Wednesday to Sunday, noon to 5pm
Thursday until 8pm
Closed Monday and Tuesday

Fowler Museum at UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking: UCLA Campus Lot 4, accessible from Sunset Blvd at Westwood Plaza.

Free admission

The traveling exhibition commemorates the victims and the struggles of the survivors, and highlights the reconstruction and recovery efforts. Featuring a series of large-scale photographs and photographic essays in text and audio form, the exhibition - scheduled to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the quake - focuses on the stories of the people recovering from the disaster in the Tohoku area, and how the people of Japan are dealing with this difficult situation and helping one another in their day-today lives. 

For more information, visit Fowler Museum website.

Exhibition is co-organized by the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and The Kahoku Shimpo newspaper, and guest-curated by Hitoshi Abe, director of the Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies and chair of UCLA’s Department of Architecture & Urban Design. Sponsored in part by the Japan Business Association of Southern California (JBA) and the Japan Foundation and supported by the U.S.undefinedJapan Council. Special recognition is also extended to the Tohoku Gakuin University Volunteer Station Translation Project team, Mari Ishida, Timothy Unverzagt Goddard, and Saran Oki.