On May 27, the bamboo object "Nasler" was completed at the Shirakami Mountains Visitor Center in Nishimeya Village, Aomori (Nishimeya Village Tashiro).

The object is 24.8 meters long and 4 meters in diameter made from 200 pieces of bamboo shoots. The image is of a monster that protects people and the environment from radioactivity by growing up after eating garbage from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident.

It was born in the forest near the Nasu interchange on the Tohoku Expressway in Nasu-machi, Tochigi Prefecture in 2014, but it was said that it emerged in March 2015 and left for somewhere. It is set as a symbol of nature protection in the village of Shirakami Mountains, which is a World Natural Heritage Site.

The creator, Katsumi Mukai, was born in Tohoku Town, Aomori Prefecture and lives in Nasu Town. He has made sculptures all over the world, but says, "I never thought of myself as an artist or artist." Even in the prefecture, he has left open-air sculptures in more than 10 municipalities, and he smiles, saying, "I'd be happy if a strange guy made something about it at pubs."

Mukai entered the village on May 12, and started producing "Nasler." I was thinking about 20 meters just like the "Nasler" made in Nasu, but I laughed, "I came up with the word 24.8 from Nishimeya and made it about 2.5 meters back and forth, and became a grown Nasler."

The village is planning a light-up project in the future, and Ms. Mukai also hopes that there will be a variety of appearances, saying, "If snow accumulates, it will be an interesting shape." The exhibition is currently planned for two years, and he said, "Maybe I'll fly somewhere again".