21 December 2012 Almost two years after the earthquake/tsunami that triggered the Japanese nuclear disaster, those from the Fukushima exclusion zone remain refugees. It’s a little known fact that approximately 170 people from Futaba who were forceably evacuated from their homes because of their proximity to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, are still living in an emergency shelter in Saitama prefecture north of Tokyo.
21 December 2012 Almost two years after the earthquake/tsunami that triggered the Japanese nuclear disaster, those from the Fukushima exclusion zone remain refugees. It’s a little known fact that approximately 170 people from Futaba who were forceably evacuated from their homes because of their proximity to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, are still living in an emergency shelter in Saitama prefecture north of Tokyo.