Facebook Twitter Pinterest Okuma’s interim-storage site for radioactive soil collected from across Fukushima prefecture. Photograph: Okuma town officeToshitsuna Watanabe, mayor of OkumaOne day after the Fukushima disaster I received a letter from a woman I’d never met who lived a long way from Fukushima. We hadn’t had much of a relationship with the city before, even though it’s also located in Fukushima prefecture. But as time passed, many of them returned to Fukushima prefecture, although they weren’t able to return to their homes near the nuclear plant. As a resident of Okuma and of Fukushima prefecture, this really troubled me.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2019 00:00 UTC