Two Japanese artists, Underground Airport and Yo Nakamura are invited for this year's Wales Lab project.

The theater collective, Underground Airport, will be heading North to Anglesey to do some research on the Wylfa Nuclear Power Station and its sociocultural effect on the local residents. Yo will be heading West, near Lampeter, to work on her choreographic project focusing on the relationship of memory and native land.

They are all…

Way back in January 2013, The Japan Foundation sent me off to Wales to do an interview with the director of the company John McGrath. Having lived in London for the past several years, I've heard so much good things about the company and was extremely excited to visit Cardiff. Frankly, however, at first sight, the town of Cardiff was a bit monotonous... But, the good news was, that the creative people living there were far from monotonous.

John and the whole…