An interview between a British journalist and a Japanese pensioner took the shape of two cultures unknown to one another. Age, for the most part, is all about rapid progression. Youth as opposed to old age is more interested in delaying the inevitable. An old man describes how he intends to work at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, cooking, entertaining, cleaning all of which on the surface seem banal. However the context turns these ordinary tasks into acts of pragmatic time-travel. For example, his life expectancy is less than the time he would expect to develop cancer from high doses of radiation. So he sees, as others clearly do, there being no other reason not to volunteer. His young interviewer slows the conversation down by suggesting they are kamikaze pensioners. Kamikaze are strange, the old man replies. They have no sense of risk management and fully intend to die. He, however, fully intend to return one day and live.