Remembering the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami and Remembering Today is the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami – also known as ‘3/11’. Unsurprisingly, this anniversary has led to many events, news stories and arti…

Remembering the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

#GreatEastJapanEarthquake #Tsunami #Fukushima #Japan #Disaster #JAL123 #Remembering #OnThisDay #Memorialisation #Bereavement #DisasterStudies #Research #東日本大震災 #RIP #OTD

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The Naka-Meguro Train Crash Memorial As part of my research for the article on modifications are made to public transportation accidents, I have visited a number of memorials around Japan. Not all of these became a part of that study …

Today is the anniversary of the Naka-Meguro Train Crash (also known as the Hibiya Line Train Crash). #RIP

#NakaMeguro #NakaMeguroTrainCrash #HibiyaLine #Tokyo #Japan #営団日比谷線中目黒駅構内列車脱線衝突事故 #Memorialisation #OnThisDay #OTD

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Remembering MH370 Today (8 March) is the anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. To date MH370 hasn’t featured much in my research on memorialisation of plane crashes – see, f…

Today in the anniversary of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

#MH370 #MalaysiaAirlines #Malaysia #Flying #OnThisDay #OTD #RIP #Disaster #PlaneCrash #Research #Anniversary #Memorialisation #AirAsia

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Remembering the MS Herald of Free Enterprise Accident Today, 6 March, is the anniversary of the capsizing of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise. Although this accident has never been a part of my research, it is one that I feel a particular connection t…

Today is the anniversary of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise disaster #RIP

#HeraldOfFreeEnterprise #TownsendThorensen #Ferry #Capsize #Zeebrugge #Dover #Memorialisation #anniversary #DarkTourism #FerryAid #OnThisDay #OTD

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Hachikō Line derailment Memorial As part of my research for the article on modifications are made to public transportation accidents, I have visited a number of memorials around Japan. Not all of these became a part of that study …

Today is the anniversary of the Hachikō Line derailment. #RIP

#HachikoDerailment #Tokyo #Japan #Derailment #TrainCrash #八高線列車脱線転覆事故 #Memorialisation #DarkTourism #OnThisDay #OTD

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The JL350 Memorial – An Update Earlier this year, I revisited the JL350 Memorial. As it, or at least the area around it, has changed quite a bit since my original post (The JL350 Memorial), I decided to do a separate post rather…

Today is the anniversary of the JL350 plane crash near Haneda Airport.

#JAL350 #JL350 #Haneda #HanedaAirport #Tokyo #HND #Japan #JAL #日本航空350便墜落事故 #日航350便 #便墜落事故 #RIP #Memorialisation #OnThisDay #OTD #DarkTourism #PlaneCrash
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Karuizawa Ski Bus Crash Memorial As part of my research for the article on modifications are made to public transportation accidents, I have visited a number of memorials around Japan. Not all of these became a part of that study …

Today is the anniversary of the Karuizawa Ski Bus Crash. #RIP

#Karuizawa #SkiBus #BusCrash #Nagano #Japan #軽井沢スキーバス転落事故 #Memorialisation #DarkTourism #軽井沢 #OnThisDay #OTD

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“Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac” and Remembering Air Florida Flight 90 Today (13 January) is the anniversary of the crash of Air Florida Flight 90, so it seems appropriate that, in the next of my posts about movies which I studied for my article “Disaster Narrat…

Today is the anniversary of the Air Florida Flight 90 crash. #RIP

#DisasterOnThePotomac #AirFlorida #Potomac #PlaneCrash #DisasterMovie #Disasters #Research #FilmStudies #MediaStudies #Memorialisation #OTD #OnThisDay
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“Crash: The Crash of Flight 401” and Remembering Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 In the next of my posts about movies which I studied for my article “Disaster Narratives by Design: Is Japan Different?”, I am writing about Crash: The Crash of Flight 401 (Berry Shear,…

On this day in 1972, Eastern Air Lines flight 401 crashed in the Florida Everglades. #RIP
The crash became the subject of a number of movies including "The Crash of Flight 401"

#Flight401 #EasternAirLines #Memorialisation #PlaneCrash #OnThisDay #OTD

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Remembering Flight AA587 Today (12 November 2020) is the 19th anniversary of the flight AA587 accident. For those unfamiliar with the accident, the key points (taken from Wikipedia) are that AA587 was a scheduled internati…

On this day in 2001, flight AA587 crashed in New York

#AA587 #FlightAA587 #AmericanAirlines #Memorialisation #Crash #PlaneCrash #DarkTourism #911 #NewYork #Bereavement #OTD #OnThisDay

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Tsurumi Rail Accident Memorial As part of my research for the article on modifications are made to public transportation accidents, I have visited a number of memorials around Japan (and some outside of Japan). Not all of these …

Today is the anniversary of the Tsurumi rail accident which killed 162 people. #RIP

#TsurumiRailAccident #Tsurumi #Yokohama #鶴見事故 #TrainCrash #Japan #Memorialisation #OnThisDay #OTD

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鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day 14 October is 鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) ‘Railway Day’ in Japan, marking the anniversary of the opening of the first railway. That first line ran from Shimbashi to Yokohama. The original Shim…

Today is 鉄道の日 (Tetsudo-no-hi) Railway Day in Japan

#鉄道の日 #TetsudoNoHi #RailwayDay #Japan #Shinkansen #BulletTrain #Memorialisation #Research #HijackingJapan #OnThisDay #OTD

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The Tōya-Maru sinking Over the last few days, due to something else I have been working on, I’ve been thinking again about the memorial to the Tōya-maru (洞爺丸) sinking. For those unfamiliar with the accident, the k…

On this day in 1954, the Toya-maru sank with the loss of over 1100 lives during a typhoon. Other ships were also sunk during the typhoon.

#洞爺丸 #Toyamaru #Hakodate #Japan #Typhoon #Memorialisation #DarkTourism #OTD #OnThisDay

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Issue 1️⃣7️⃣ of the #SouthEastEurope and #BlackSea region programmeʼs #PeaceandSecurityMonitor is out!

💡What is inside:
➡️Contested #Srebrenica #Genocide #Memorialisation: Prospects for #Reconciliation through Community Healing

JL123 Anniversary Reflections Following on from my post reflecting on the Hiroshima atomic bombing anniversary and my post reflecting on the Nagasaki atomic bombing anniversary, this is the third of four posts that I will do on…

JL123 Anniversary Reflections

#Japan #JL123 #JAL123 #Uenomura #Gunma #Osutaka #OsutakaNoOne #JA8119 #IreiNoSono #Memorialisation #PlaneCrash

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Nagasaki Anniversary Reflections Following on from my post reflecting on the Hiroshima atomic bombing anniversary, this is the second of four posts that I will do on the anniversaries that I attended in August 2025. The text ties …

Nagasaki Anniversary Reflections

#Japan #Nagasaki #Nagasaki80 #NagasakiLast #Hibakusha #AtomicBomb #NuclearWeapons #Memorialisation #Symbolism

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Hiroshima Anniversary Reflections As noted in my post August – Japan’s Month for Remembering, I spent about two and half weeks in Japan in August 2025, to observe the 80th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagas…

Hiroshima Anniversary Reflections

#Japan #Hiroshima #Hiroshima80 #NoMoreHiroshimas #AtomicBomb #NuclearWeapons #Memorialisation #Symbolism

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Hachikō Line Train Collision Memorial As part of my research for the article on modifications are made to public transportation accidents, I have visited a number of memorials around Japan. Not all of these became a part of that study …

Today is the anniversary of the Hachiko Line train collision which killed about 105 people. #RIP

#HachikoLine #八高線列車正面衝突事故 #TrainCrash #Tokyo #Japan #Memorialisation #OnThisDay #OTD

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The Hidagawa Bus Crash Memorial As part of my research for the article on modifications are made to public transportation accidents, I have visited a number of memorials around Japan. To fit with the parameters of that …

Today is the anniversary of the Hidagawa Bus Crash. #RIP

#HidagawaBusCrash #飛騨川バス転落事故 #Japan #Memorialisation #Accident #DarkTourism #Gifu #Shirakawa #Hidagawa #BusCrash #Anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay #岐阜県 #白川口 #白川町 #飛騨川

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My Research about the Flight JL123 Crash I am conducting research about the Japan Air Lines flight JL123 (also known as JAL123) crash on 12 August 1985 in Ueno-mura. The research not only covers the crash itself (you can find a summary he…

Remembering the victims, loved ones, and those otherwise affected by the JL123 crash. Learn more about it here: hoodcp.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/m... #JL123 #JAL123 #memorialisation #Japan #Uenomura #PlaneCrash #AirCrash #Disaster #日本航空123便墜落事故 #日本航空123便 #上野村 #御巣鷹の尾根

My Research about the Flight JL123 Crash I am conducting research about the Japan Air Lines flight JL123 (also known as JAL123) crash on 12 August 1985 in Ueno-mura. The research not only covers the crash itself (you can find a summary he…

Remembering the victims, loved ones, and those otherwise affected by the JL123 crash. Learn more about it here: hoodcp.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/m... #JL123 #JAL123 #memorialisation #Japan #Uenomura #PlaneCrash #AirCrash #Disaster #日本航空123便墜落事故 #上野村 #御巣鷹の尾根 #黙とう #RIP #OTD

What happens when a loved one is lost in an air crash? "Osutaka" covers the experiences of one such family. bit.ly/35xHkxt #JL123 #JAL123 #PlaneCrash #Memorialisation #AirCrash #Disaster #PersonalExperience #Diary #Japan #Uenomura #Fujioka #日本航空123便墜落事故 #OTD

"Osutaka" provides a rare insight into what it’s like to lose a loved one in an ‎air crash. mybook.to/OsutakaeB #JL123 #JAL123 #Memorialisation #PlaneCrash #AirCrash #Disaster #PersonalExperience #Diary #Japan #Uenomura #Fujioka #日本航空123便墜落事故 #OTD

My Research about the Flight JL123 Crash I am conducting research about the Japan Air Lines flight JL123 (also known as JAL123) crash on 12 August 1985 in Ueno-mura. The research not only covers the crash itself (you can find a summary he…

Remembering the victims, loved ones and those otherwise affected by the JL123 crash. Learn more about it here: hoodcp.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/m...
#JL123 #JAL123 #memorialisation #Japan #Uenomura #PlaneCrash #AirCrash #Disaster #日本航空123便墜落事故 #上野村 #御巣鷹の尾根 #OTD #OnThisDay

Osutaka The loss of a loved one at any time is a traumatic event. When their death comes as a result of something sudden and unexpected, the impact can be even greater. If the loved one is your child ̵…

"Osutaka" provides a rare insight into what it’s like to lose a loved one in an ‎air crash.
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#JL123 #JAL123 #Memorialisation #PlaneCrash #AirCrash #Disaster #PersonalExperience #Diary #Japan #Uenomura #Fujioka #日本航空123便墜落事故 #OTD #OnThisDay

My Research about the Flight JL123 Crash I am conducting research about the Japan Air Lines flight JL123 (also known as JAL123) crash on 12 August 1985 in Ueno-mura. The research not only covers the crash itself (you can find a summary he…

Today I am remembering the victims, loved ones and those otherwise affected by the JL123 crash. Learn more about it here: hoodcp.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/m... #JL123 #JAL123 #memorialisation #Japan #Uenomura #PlaneCrash #AirCrash #Disaster #日本航空123便墜落事故 #OTD #OnThisDay #上野村

#DarkHeritage & #Memorialisation News

The announcement of the winning design in the RIBA organised competition to design a Grenfell Tower memorial has been delayed and could now come as late as November.

Today is the anniversary of the ANA Flight NH58 crash. #RIP

#NH58 #Shizukuishi #全日空機雫石衝突事故 #雫石 #PlaneCrash #Memorialisation #DarkTourism #Japan #ANA #SDF #JAL123 #OnThisDay #OTD

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Reflecting on a Research Trip to Paris: The Concorde Memorials Last week I took a two-day trip to Paris for research. There were a number of elements to the trip, and I am going to do a series of posts relating to each of them and this is the second (after the…

Today is the anniversary of the Concorde Flight AF4590 Crash #RIP

#Concorde #AF4590 #Crash #PlaneCrash #Memorialisation #DarkTourism #Paris #CDG #France #AirFrance #OnThisDay #OTD

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Remembering Flight TWA800 Today (17 July 2020) is the 24th anniversary of the flight TWA800 accident. For those unfamiliar with the accident, the key points (taken from Wikipedia) are that the plane was a Boeing 747-10…

Today is the anniversary of the TWA800 crash. #RIP

#TWA800 #Memorialisation #DarkTourism #NewYork #USA #Boeing747 #JumboJet #PlaneCrash #Accident #Disaster #OnThisDay #OTD

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