Japan is once again the preferred case study in the building of future scenarios, fruit of the understanding of all the tragic falls of modernity and of public opinion enveloped by an optimistic view of the concept of progress. From the large movie poster designed in Saigon depicting Godzilla, the monster icon of post-Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to the video of the abandoned pigs of Fukushima, passing through the monochromes of contaminated nori on wood, the Land of the Rising Sun is as much a sunset of humanity to learn from, as a perpetual motion of resilience that continuously shifts the limits of the acceptable. On the background emerges the environmental issue as a political territory where sustainability processes become practices of daily resistance, while existing models remain anchored to unsustainable balances, offspring of the cold war and of its logic.