I purchased a long sought after foot bath

2980 yen, cheap in a discount store!
Recently, I bought LUSH and health appliances,

So I can not afford buying new clothes (> д <)

I want cloths from SLY...
Now there's a sale.

And buy one after another as if I wear them as costumes.

Oh uh

I will wait for a late birthday gift (laughs)

What do you remember about the moment you posted that photo. What were you doing? Why did you choose to share it?

I took this photo to submit with an application to reclaim a subsidy after installing fire alarms in my house and the family shop next door. There were many alarms installed, so I was trying to take the photos as quickly as possible.

How do you feel looking at the photo again and remembering that moment now, before the Fukushima disaster?

Although it might have felt the same if I saw another photos which were taken before the disaster, when looking at the photo I wondered about things I considered not so important and how they were connected with things important to me. See the image, I felt that all the lights in the house were suddenly illuminated, turned on by a switch I did not touch.

How have your plans changed since the Fukushima disaster? If they have changed, what were they before?

I feel that the world where I lived has disappeared and the nuclear myth rooted in the community has collapsed. I think before the disaster I believed that I was protected by the nuclear myth and the comfortable atmosphere of the countryside.

Were you working on anything was interrupted due to the disaster––education, creative projects, business deals, etc.? If so, do you intend to work on it again in the future?

I try to take any chance to develop, even if the trigger was the disaster. I’m interested in making things and researching new topics as well as perusing my previous interests. This the way I have been working and I want to struggle on thinking between what I can change and what is immutable.

What do you remember about the moment you posted that photo. What were you doing? Why did you choose to share it?

I got up in the morning and finished preparing breakfast. When I looked outside, I saw the cherry blossom petals had fallen so I took this photo. I prefer the fallen cherry blossoms than those in full bloom.

How do you feel looking at the photo again and remembering that moment now, before the Fukushima disaster?

I had a moment that I didn’t think about anything when I took the photo of cherry blossoms. Now, I don’t feel like to going back to my home during the cherry blossom season. I would cry if I saw the cherry blossoms which nobody can see anymore.

How have your plans changed since the Fukushima disaster? If they have changed, what were they before?

[Before the disaster] I was working in a nursing home and I was asked to work there until I 68 years old so I was supposed to continue working. I was thinking if I had retired, I would have wanted to have an informal restaurant where I would only take one or two reservations a day.
Due to the nuclear disaster, I’m voluntarily nursing elderly people in the temporary housing site where I live.

Were you working on anything was interrupted due to the disaster––education, creative projects, business deals, etc.? If so, do you intend to work on it again in the future?

I haven’t started anything new, the day 11th March hasn't stopped for me.

What do you remember about the moment you posted that photo. What were you doing? Why did you choose to share it?

This is the last trip abroad before the earthquake. I wanted to go to the trip because I was going to open a restaurant in April [2011]. The trip was to Taiwan.

How do you feel looking at the photo again and remembering that moment now, before the Fukushima disaster?

I am sad that the plan to open a restaurant was cancelled. Although this is a photo of Taiwan, I wonder if my hometown has disappeared...

How have your plans changed since the Fukushima disaster? If they have changed, what were they before?

I was trying to enliven my hometown and bring visitors to our garden in Okuma before the disaster. I like my hometown, but I can’t be there now. Now I have time to myself instead of being with people or neighbors. I have too much time alone. I can’t explain well. I became ill just after the disaster. I can’t help forgetting the disaster even though I try to forget. I can’t explain it well, it’s so complicated.

Were you working on anything was interrupted due to the disaster––education, creative projects, business deals, etc.? If so, do you intend to work on it again in the future?

I opened a new locale where I have evacuated too, for people to relax and mend their bodies and mind.
I communicate with people through the music. I want to make a community center for people who evacuated from Fukushima and to get to know those in their new areas and bring them together.