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Looking backward

As sea levels continue to rise with global warming, "zero-meter zones," areas below sea level, are growing. In densely built, populated urban areas, there are many constraints on strengthening flood control and evacuation measures. Looking ahead over the next 100 years, strategies used to protect cities and their residents will be put to the test.

Synopsis: One day in 1959, a young girl named Asa Asada is running through the streets of the Port of Nagoya to find the doctor – her mothers going into labor again. Asas one of eleven children and definitely not keen on the arrival of another, but when shes kidnapped by a strange man, she realizes that she still loves her large family. But while Asa and the man are in an empty warehouse, the rain outside turns into a typhoon, and when they manage to emerge, the Port of Nagoya is basica...

Monkeys chill out around bonfire at zoo in Japan December 21, 2020 (Mainichi Japan) Yakushima macaques look contented as they warm themselves by a bonfire, at the Japan Monkey Centre in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, on Dec. 20, 2020. (Mainichi/Koji Hyodo) INUYAMA, Aichi -- Yakushima macaques gathered around a bonfire to warm themselves up at the Japan Monkey Centre in this central Japan city on Dec. 20, apparently delighted by the heat from the flames amid the severe winter cold. The ann...