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The latest in my "Pacific Rim Diary" series for The Madeleine Brand Show  at KPCC/NPR is about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons, my interview with the American Chair of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, Steven Leeper--and the current state of Japan's post-Fukushima nuclear power dilemma.   Hear it  here . A story I wrote last week about Leeper and Hiroshima for The Christian Science Monitor is here . [photos courtesy of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation]

My very personal account of technological displacement for the   PUNCH! app for iPad here , and online here   via The Awl .   [Illustrations and lettering by Gant Powell.]

THIS IS a ghostly time of year in Japan. Not only is it the annual Obon season, when the spirits of the dead return home. August 6th is also the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, when the Japanese are reminded of the invisible horrors of radiation. [David McNeill in the Economist here ]

"Put out the fire / And don't look past my shoulder" Click here to see the dousing of the Olympic flame and  The Who's Olympic Finale in London on Nico in Japan.

Bit too personal, this one. Click to enlarge, if you dare ...