The reportage book Ganbare! Workshops on Dying, as reads the title of the English translation of the book, has been published by the American publishing house Open Letter Books in Rochester.

Ganbare! is the story of a country where the threat of disaster has become a normal occurrence, and everyday life is lined with the spectre of death. It’s also a story about people who, five years after an earthquake, a tsunami, and an explosion at a nuclear power plant, are trying to cope with a new reality. Some of them have learned to scuba dive and keep searching for the remains of loved ones at the bottom of the sea. Others, ignoring the threat, try to live in an irradiated world as if nothing had happened. There are still others who talk to ghosts, or some who sign up for workshops on dying.