text by NORITOSHI HIRAKAWA I live in New York City. Since March 11, 2011, I’ve visited Japan four times. My latest visit was in November. I spent two weeks in Tokyo, a day in Kyoto, and another in Takasaki. Just as it was on my previous three visits, Tokyo’s Narita Airport was very quiet on Nov. 4. Hardly any international tourists were entering the country. It was like a no-man’s-land. Earlier that week, I was in Berlin to participate in an event called “Learning from Fukushima,” organized by the Berliner Gazette. Discussions at the event focused on new media activities relating to the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. I was perhaps the only person to ask about the censorship of the reporting of the disaster in the public media and on the Internet. The Japanese government started developing nuclear technology at the end of the 1950s. It…