ABSTRACT
Time passes and things change even after an apocalyptic disaster, which, at the time, looked like the end of the world. Seven years after the triple disaster – the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident that hit north-east Japan on 11 March 2011 – it still feels too early to fully understand its sociological, economic, and political impact, let alone its philosophical and spiritual significance. At the same time, however, there is a sense that too much has already been forgotten, memories of life have begun to fade away as debris is cleared, the ground is levelled, new roads are constructed, the coast is lined with concrete fortresses, radioactive soils are moved, and the crippled nuclear power plant buildings are covered over with a shiny new roof and enclosed by a subterranean wall of ice.
