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ANPO: Art X War - In Havoc's Wake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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Our plane was one hour away from landing when the pilot announced, “There's been a major earthquake in Japan and Narita is shut down.” It was March 11th, 2011. I was en route to Japan to teach my film, ANPO: Art X War in art, film and history classes at the American School in Tokyo the following week. Or so I thought. I could never have imagined I would arrive to witness Japan's greatest postwar disaster. Or the resonances my film would assume in its wake.

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