Published 10 March 2026 by Cherise Fong

In 2025, I went to Fukushima to participate in the 4th edition of “Let’s Ride the Waves on March 11th”. This year, local surfer host Yuko Takahashi shares her backstory and thoughts on this ritual event.

Published 19 December 2019 by Cherise Fong

Nine years after the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan, a team of women in Ishinomaki are upcycling shards of broken pottery into pieces of jewelry that are sold around the world.

Published 1 March 2017

On one side, Handle by Boston Dynamics, a military-grade equine robot that rolls, jumps and spins; on the other, Spider, an excavator commissioned to crush and remove nuclear debris in Fukushima.

Published 13 October 2015 by Cherise Fong

“Don’t Follow the Wind” is an invisible exhibition inside the contaminated Fukushima's Exclusion Zone. For the awareness of future generations.

Published 4 November 2014 by Cherise Fong

Launched in Tokyo after the Fukushima disaster in 2011, Safecast measures nuclear radiation with a DIY device and shares the data on an open map. Makery met the core team behind the project.