Natsumi Seo and Haruka Komori's Double layered town / Making a song to replace our positions 2020 follows four visitors in their 20s who listen to the stories of townspeople who lived through the disaster. They walk around areas under construction—ocean views obstructed by the new and much higher seawall (tripled in height all along the once tree-lined coast); streets looking over scaffolding and hills of new earth, and the constant sound of heavy machinery. In people’s cramped temporary living spaces the visitors listen to intimate stories of loss and trauma. A conversation at the end of Double-layered town reveals that the young people are yet to decide what to do with the stories they have heard. Like unwitting denshōsha (custodians of oral histories), a term used primarily for the keepers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing survivor stories, they now feel a heavy obligation to honour the survivors’ accounts.