Facebook Twitter Pinterest Okuma town hall in the foreground, with the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and Pacific ocean in the distance. Photograph: Okuma town officeToshitsuna Watanabe, mayor of Okuma“I’m finally home” – these are the first words I uttered when I returned to Okuma, my hometown. It was part of a speech I gave to guests at a ceremony to mark the opening of our new town hall. The following day, it was lifted in some areas of the town, allowing us to prepare to open our town hall. We decided to focus our regeneration plans and build our new town hall in Ogawara, because its previous location was still off-limits.

Source: The Guardian June 01, 2019 00:00 UTC