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Amy Lange Kawamura
@amylangekawamura.bsky.social
Fukushima lover.


My site about Fukushima for kids:
https://amylangekawamura.com

Author of RAIDER MAYER WON'T GET PUSHED AROUND
MG (for kids ages 8-12)
Raider is a fan of sumo. (Pushed around? Get it? Get it?!!?!)

NO AI
“Underground: The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran" by Blake Atwood
“Best Men” by Sidney Karger
“American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin” by Terrance Hayes
“Even the Darkest Stars” by Heather Fawcett
December 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I feel if I discuss shield at Chornobyl NPP, it'll sound like I don't care about those killed in the terrible war. Obviously, the worst problems are not the nuclear shield.

But--I think about nuclear issues.
I strongly feel nuclear power plants and war do NOT mix.

edition.cnn.com/2025/12/06/e...
Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike, UN nuclear watchdog says | CNN
The protective shield built around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste as a result of a drone strike earlier this year, according to th...
edition.cnn.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Nice straight horizons!!!!

Photos of Fukushima by Ikkoh
Dec.07,2025 相馬松川浦みなとや 朝焼けから日の出の風景 良き
DoYASA! Fukushima,JAPAN
#イッコージーズ #ふくしまフォト #松川浦の福とら最高 #冬の福島 #photograph
December 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Fukushima City

Amy got the horizon straight! Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!🖼️
December 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Fukushima rabbit
December 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
1. This YA book is called “Even the Darkest Stars." It is by Heather Fawcett.

Kamzin lives in a village near a mountain that has never been climbed to the top. Her mom died trying.

A famous explorer----River----has come to her village. He's going to climb it. Kamzin wants to go with him.
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Fukushima horizon is slanted sorry about that I'm not sure what I was thinking/doing?
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
As much as I enjoy "book in my hand made of paper," I also enjoy books on my kindle. Only 182 yen for me (amazon in Japan.)

"he has a secret...."

I LOVE BOOKS WITH SECRETS!♥️
UK Readers! My award-winning debut novel A RELUCTANT SPY is on a Kindle Daily Deal for today only - just 99p on Kindle and 99p for Audible members.

Grab one or both before midnight tonight!

cc @headlinebooks.bsky.social @dhhlitagency.bsky.social

www.amazon.co.uk/Reluctant-Sp...
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
AizuWakamatsu City, in Fukushima

AizuWakamatsu is the first place in Fukushima Prefecture I ever went in my life.
It was on a school trip with students in a rural school in Chiba, in 1990's. AizuWakamatsu is not the only lovely part of Fukushima, but it's the place Japanese tourists visit most. ❤️
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
1. Ryoko Ando
This article will be free for 24 hours.

She begins by saying that in 2026, it will be 15 years since the nuclear accident.
That paragraph ends with "私は怒っているのだ"
"I am angry."

Amy: I also feel bitter. I understand her feelings, I think?
I'll read rest of article.
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Um, what can I say? I guess nothing at this point.

What's the point of me ever saying anything?
December 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
1. “American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin” is a book of poems by Terrance Hayes.

The title of each poem in this book is “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin."
Each poem has fourteen lines.

Great to flip through, and read whatever catches my eye....!
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Fukushima City

Years ago, I saw this sign. 本

本!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was so excited.

Books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's what it says.
I went up to it, practically drooling in anticipation.
But this bookstore went out of business. No longer a book store.

Anyway that is the kanji for "book."
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Fukushima City, Keeping out the bears
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reposted by Amy Lange Kawamura
I donated 5000 yen to Japan Cat rescue @ginnytkmr.bsky.social as I have done TNR for 8 cats over the years & know how expensive, time consuming yet also lovely work it is to give stray cats a better shot 4 healthy, loved little life - we love our 3 crazy cute rescue cats Gary, Tik & Tok #cats #japan
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
He is not on BlueSky (I think) but the next book I've enjoyed, and will post photos of, will be a book of poetry by the man below-----Terrance Hayes
We are delighted to introduce Terrance Hayes as the latest Seamus Heaney International Visiting Poetry Fellow at Queen’s.

Terrance is an award-winning American poet and educator, and Distinguished Silver Professor of Creative Writing at New York University.

Find out more ➡️ ow.ly/fGsY50XA1ST
December 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Fukushima City

This is a mountain (or hill? It's considered a mountain) inside Fukushima City.
Fukushima City is basically flat, surrounded by mountains. (Fukushima City is a "basin.")

We have small mountains in our city, like this one. Mt. Shinobu.

It's very historic, and great to hike.
December 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Fukushima barn
December 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
1. I follow Suzie Sunshine ( @suzwarto.bsky.social ) and this popped up.

I know who the guy holding the banana is, he's pro-nuclear.
I do not know who anybody else in this video is.

Ayres says "post the Fukushima disaster" at 2:06

FYI:
"After the nuclear disaster in Fukushima" is correct.

cont.
@willshackel.bsky.social You complain about nuclear power disinformation, provide banana / nuclear power disinformation, then complain that you're being attacked?
😮‍💨🤦🏼‍♀️

Bananas contain natural radiation, potassium-40, that our bodies are equipped to regulate.
No special gear for workers.
"Bananas are more radioactive than nuclear plants" Will Shackel responds to Dee Madigan on Q&A
YouTube video by Nuclear for Australia
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Fukushima daisies (?)
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
1. I don't know much about Salvation Army nowadays.

My current YA (which is on hold while I revise my MG) is about exploitation by American missionaries in Japan.

I was having a hard time coming up with a plot for a long time.

How I got my plot is related to the Salvation Army.

cont.
There's a couple reasons so many IWW songs are set to the tunes of hymns and one is that the Salvation Army Band would show up and try to stop workers organizing by playing hymns to drown out speeches, so the Wobblies came up with words so they could sing along. SA has been trash all along.
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
1. This book is hilarious!!!! It's called "Best Men." It's by Sidney Karger.

Protag Max Moody is so funny. I kept laughing out loud.

He's had a best friend (Paige) since childhood. They even moved to New York City at the same time. When Paige gets married she wants Max to be her best man.
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Fukushima flower
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
1. This is about the 2 different approaches of 2 countries: France & Germany.
France-many nuclear power plants
Germany-Merkel shut down Germany's nuclear power plants after 3/11/11

Pro-nuclear people often blame Fukushima for Merkel's decision.
But we in Fukushima do NOT decide what Germany does.
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM