Kwansei Gakuin University

Japan's usually sedate society is angry and getting organised against nuclear power, with the kind of snowballing protest movement not seen for decades.

Japanese-born artist Masami Teraoka remembers the bombing of Hiroshima as the day when he saw two suns rising -- one in the east as usual, the other an orb burning eerily in the west.

Japan may have recently set a world record for tweets per second, but when it comes to electioneering the nation's politicians are still restricted to 20th century megaphones and handing out pamphlets.