Fukushima is the southernmost prefecture in the Tohoku region. It is the third largest prefecture in Japan, following Hokkaido and Iwate, with a total area of 13,782.75 km ². This is nearly comparable to the state of Connecticut in the USA (14,357 km ²) and half the size of Massachusetts (27,336 km ²). Fukushima City, the prefectural capital, is located about 260km from Tokyo, or 90 minutes by the Shinkansen (bullet train) operated by JR (Japan Railways) Tohoku. The population of the capital is less than 300,000. Koriyama City, the commercial center of Fukushima prefecture, boasts the 2nd highest annual sales of commercial products in the Tohoku region. The population of Koriyama is around 340,000. The total population of the prefecture is approximately 2 million people, but more than 160,000 people have been forced to flee outside the prefecture due to the nuclear accident.
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“Fukushima on the Globe” is a portal site of citizen’s movement inside and outside Fukushima after the nuclear accident happened in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on Mar.11, 2011.Though media coverage and people’s interest in Fukushima seems to be going down, still more than 120,000 people (as of June 2014) are displaced from their home and thousands of people including children are living in the area where annual airborne radiation dose exceeds 1 mSV, ICRP’s limit of radiation exposure for member of public.We establish this site to share these people’s agony and struggle with international community, as it is not only the problem in Fukushima or Japan but also the problem for all human beings on the globe.