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SOMA, Fukushima -- Haragamaobama Beach here was opened to swimmers on July 21 for the first time in eight years after the area was struck in March 2011 by a massive tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The beach is the first in the northern part of the prefecture to reopen after the disaster. Three beaches earlier opened in the southern city of Iwaki.
Haragamaobama Beach attracted about 56,500 people in 2010. However, 207 people in the area died in the March 11, 2011 disaster, and the tsunami littered the beach with debris.
The beach is about 45 kilometers away from the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, which was struck by meltdowns following the quake and tsunami. The city has not found any detectable levels of radioactive substances in seawater quality tests it started in 2016. It reopened the beach after preparing tsunami evacuation routes.
Sayaka Mori, 29, a nursing care worker in the northern prefectural city of Minamisoma, came to the beach with her 3-year-old daughter and played at the water's edge. "I grew up at my home in front of the sea. It was natural to play at the beach. I want my child to know the delight of playing in the sea," she said.
(Japanese original by Ryusuke Takahashi, Minamisoma Rocal Bureau)
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Japanese Title
福島・原釜尾浜 8年ぶりの海開き 県北部で初
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東日本大震災の津波で大規模な被害を受けた福島県相馬市の原釜尾浜(はらがまおばま)海水浴場が21日、8年ぶりに海開きした。同県内の海水浴場は震災後、県南部のいわき市で3カ所再開されたが、県北部では初めて。震災以前は多くの観光客を集めた海の町に、歓声が戻ってきた。
同海水浴場は震災前年の2010年、約5…
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https://mainichi.jp/articles/20180721/k00/00e/040/314000c
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Fukushima Pref. beach opens to swimmers for 1st time after tsunami, nuclear disasters
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SOMA, Fukushima -- Haragamaobama Beach here was opened to swimmers on July 21 for the first time in eight years after the area was struck in March 2011 by a massive tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake.
The beach is the first in the northern part of the prefecture to reopen after the disaster. Three beaches earlier opened in the southern city of Iwaki.
Haragamaobama Beach attracted about 56,500 people in 2010. However, 207 people in the area died in the March 11, 2011 disaster, and the tsunami littered the beach with debris.
The beach is about 45 kilometers away from the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, which was struck by meltdowns following the quake and tsunami. The city has not found any detectable levels of radioactive substances in seawater quality tests it started in 2016. It reopened the beach after preparing tsunami evacuation routes.
Sayaka Mori, 29, a nursing care worker in the northern prefectural city of Minamisoma, came to the beach with her 3-year-old daughter and played at the water's edge. "I grew up at my home in front of the sea. It was natural to play at the beach. I want my child to know the delight of playing in the sea," she said.
(Japanese original by Ryusuke Takahashi, Minamisoma Rocal Bureau)
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