In his talk, Philip Brophy will review the use of tree imagery in some anime films and artworks, focusing on the ‘Miracle Pine’ (Ippon Matsu), the last tree to survive from a grove of 70,000 trees in Rikuzentaka. The tree has been regarded as an unofficial symbol of post 3/11 recovery in Japan and will feature in his forthcoming book project provisionally titled Unnatural Disaster – Imaging Destruction in Japan from Hiroshima to Fukushima and Beyond.

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