{"id":7764,"date":"2022-05-19T09:42:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T09:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=7764"},"modified":"2022-05-20T09:44:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T09:44:14","slug":"japans-sinking-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2022\/05\/19\/japans-sinking-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Sinking Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">A new documentary, \u2018Coastal Tourism: Japan\u2019s Sinking Sector\u2019 premiering on KMTV focuses on the disappearance of Japan\u2019s coastline and how both locals and British academics are attempting to combat this before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary was produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/\">Kent<\/a> alumni, Ayaka Shida-Sasaki, in collaboration with former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/anthropology-conservation\">Anthropology and Conservation<\/a> researcher Dr Takahiro Kubo and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/kmtv\/\">KMTV<\/a>. Mrs Shida-Sasaki\u2019s debut documentary was shot entirely on an iPhone during strict COVID-19 restrictions at Lake Hamana, Shizuoka Prefecture.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMany have, unfortunately, become desensitised to headlines surrounding the impacts of climate change. Ayaka\u2019s film, however, makes you sit up at the sheer pace of this crisis.\u201d &#8211; Producer, Cameron Tucker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Former University of Kent academic Dr Takahiro Kubo, whose research the film is based on, has said that by the year 2100 the majority of Japan\u2019s beaches will have disappeared. \u201cWe are in a race against time to understand the impact these changes will have on my country\u2019s beloved beaches. We are also losing time to do something about it,\u201d he said. \u201cI hope the film will raise awareness about this vital issue and get the public and governments alike to act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7766\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-16-at-18.49.34.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The film demonstrates the scale at which climate change is changing the country\u2019s physical and economic landscape. Clam fishing is a \u2018must-do\u2019 in Lake Hamana, bringing in around 300-400,000 tourists annually. This once-popular pastime is experiencing a sharp, potentially fatal decline. \u201cLast year, we caught 700 tonnes of clams,\u201d says local fisherman Ryuji Tokumasu. \u201cThis year, it\u2019s less than 100 tonnes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentonline.co.uk\/kmtv\/\"><strong>Coastal Tourism: Japan\u2019s Sinking Sector will premiere on KMTV at 12:45 on Monday 23 May<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary, \u2018Coastal Tourism: Japan\u2019s Sinking Sector\u2019 premiering on KMTV focuses on the disappearance of Japan\u2019s coastline and how both locals and British academics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2022\/05\/19\/japans-sinking-sector\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":7765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[167396,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7770,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions\/7770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}