Japan police end nuclear art stunt, AFP, May 2, 2011:

[...] The clandestine add-on image — painted in a style mimicking that of Okamoto’s “Myth of Tomorrow” on display at a busy Tokyo train station — created a stir on Twitter before police took it down Sunday evening.

The small wooden panel — which shows black smoke billowing from reactor buildings resembling those at Fukushima — was attached to the wall without causing damage to the original 30-metre (100-foot) long wall painting.

Okamoto, who was born 100 years ago and died in 1996, is one of Japan’s best-known modern artists. [...]

Picture of the Day, Japan Today, November 22, 2008:

[...] The mural, which is 30 meters wide and 5.5 meters tall, symbolizes the moment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945, and was created in Mexico City between 1968 and 1969. It had been missing until it was found in 2003 by Okamoto’s wife in a yard for building materials in Mexico City. [...] The mural is installed on the wall of a walk-through of the Keio Inokashira Line’s Shibuya Station and will have a guard during commuter hours to prevent vandals defacing it.

Japan gets a Banksy? Fukushima appears on Taro Okamoto work, Tokyo Times, May 1, 2011:

Japanese anger at the country’s constant push to see the atom become a part of the nation’s industry should come as no surprise, and a new piece bu [sic] a graffiti artist catches the mood. [...]

Appearing to equate the Fukushima disaster to the numerous tragedies visited on the Japanese through atomic energy will ring true for those against TEPCO. [...]

Tokyo Times

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