Fukushima Cannot Divorce Itself From the Nuclear Plant - The nuclear power generator business is int
May 19, 2011 Minamisoma City, Fukushima, Japan. Near the roped-off border of the 20 kilometer radius area of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, I found the National Road 6, the regional arterial roadway, was closed off in the middle of rice fields and there a checkpoint was set up. There was a familiar-looking electric bulletin board, flashing letters saying “No Entry due to Basic Act on Disaster Control Measures.” There stood 10 or so policemen stopping cars. “Can you
Not a Soul with a Hazmat Suit in Minamisoma: Covering a Story in Radioactive Rainfall
2011.05.12 After covering the devastation left by the tsunami in the Iwate and Aomori prefectures, I couldn’t suppress my desire to pay a trip to Fukushima. I figured that it would be impossible to fully grasp the 3.11 crisis without first understanding both sides of it – the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and the nuclear power plant accident. This kind of nuclear accident, which had occurred on just two occasions in all of human history -- in Chernobyl and Three Mile Is
