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March 09, 2016

Adapting to the Fukushima disaster

Its five years since March 11, 2011 when people in northeastern Japan had their lives wrecked by a 9.0 earthquake that generated a tsunami that flooded the entire Tohoku coast. The disaster killed at least 16,000 people, injured many more and wrecked the lives of those who survived.

Besides the thousands of homes and businesses destroyed, the disaster unleashed a major nuclear crisis when it damaged the Fukushima Dai Ichi Nuclear Power Plant leading to radioactivity contamination that required a 30-kilometer evacuation zone.

Since then local people have fought hard to keep a semblance of normalcy although life can never really be normal again. Besides reconstructing their lives, grieving for their lost ones, and living without them, they have had to live under a constant threat of radiation.

(Photos by Michael Coyne)

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