Naoto Matsumura, 53, stands in an empty street in the evacuated town of Tomioka, near the tsunami-crippled Daichi power plant, on September 17, 2013
The Broken Lives of Fukushima
An official measures radiation on a car leaving the exclusion zone near the tsunami-crippled Daiichi nuclear power plant, near the town of Tomioka, on September 13, 2013
People wear face masks as they visit a cemetery in the tsunami-destroyed coastal area of Namie, on September 23, 2013
Plastic bags, containing radiated soil, leaves and debris from a decontamination operation, sit dumped at a tennis court at a sports park in Naraha town, on September 21, 2013
Rubber gloves, left outside a house in the evacuated town of Namie, on September 13, 2013
Wild vegetation grows inside destroyed greenhouses at an abandoned farm at the edge of the exclusion zone at the coastal area near Minamisoma, on September 21, 2013
Copies of Fukushima Minpo newspapers with headlines "M(magnitude) 8.8, largest in the country", dated a day after the devastating 2011 earthquake, sit stacked inside an office in the evacuated town of Namie, on September 14, 2013
Messages of support are written on a blackboard in a science class in a primary schoolin Namie, on September 22, 2013
A table is still set for customers at a restaurant in the abandoned town of Namie, on September 14, 2013