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It’s been three years since the small Japanese village of Iitate was evacuated and irradiated by the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown. Emptied of its 6,000 residents, the once-idyllic village was transformed into a desolate ghost town overnight, but its pre-nuclear past hasn’t been forgotten. Chiyoko Kanno, a 68-year-old nurse and photographer living in Namie documented life in Iitate in the year before the disaster. Her photos are the focus of a new exhibition at the Kyoto University of Art and Desig
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Life Before Fukushima in an Irradiated Japanese Ghost Town | Motherboard
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It’s been three years since the small Japanese village of Iitate was evacuated and irradiated by the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown. Emptied of its 6,000 residents, the once-idyllic village was transformed into a desolate ghost town overnight, but its pre-nuclear past hasn’t been forgotten. Chiyoko Kanno, a 68-year-old nurse and photographer living in Namie documented life in Iitate in the year before the disaster. Her photos are the focus of a new exhibition at the Kyoto University of Art and Desig
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