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Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami
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In this June 8, 2011 photo, residents wearing protective suits gather in a gym in Hirono, Japan for a briefing before being escorted to their homes inside the exclusion zone to retrieve a few small items. The government allowed strictly controlled visits by residents and each person had to be tightly screened for radioactive contamination upon return.
In this June 8, 2011 photo, employees of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) bow deeply as a bus passes by carrying people originally living in towns inside the exclusion zone near the damaged nuclear power plant which is operated by TEPCO.
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In this July 26, 2011 photo, Junko Shimizu packs her husband's suit to take out of their evacuated home in Namie, Japan during a government organized visit inside the exclusion zone for families to collect a few of their belongings. The Shimizu family chose to take with them important documents, their best clothing, their daughter's wedding kimono, and family photos, among other important small items
In this July 16, 2011 photo, a noodle restaurant sits abandoned along the main highway near Futaba, Japan, less than six miles from the damaged nuclear power plant.
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In this July 26, 2011 photo, rice and tempura mildews in bowls left on the tables of a restaurant in Namie, Japan, that was hastily abandoned after the earthquake struck on March 11.
In this July 13, 2011 photo, cans of beer lie dislodged inside a flood-damaged vending machine in an abandoned neighborhood in Naraha, Japan inside the nuclear exclusion zone.
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In this June 7, 2011 photo, residents of a nursing home in Itate, Japan rest in a community room. Itate is located northwest, and just outside of the official nuclear exclusion zone but registers some of the highest levels of radiation in the prefecture and was largely abandoned over the summer. Employees of the nursing home say that some residents of the nursing home elected to stay behind because they are old enough that they do not fear the long-term effects of exposure to radiation. Employees of the facility had mostly moved away but commute to work and rotate their shifts to limit their own exposure.
In this June 5, 2011 photo, two stray pet dogs fight in the deserted streets of Okuma, Japan. In the early days of the crisis, roaming farm animals and pets were everywhere inside the no-go zone. But by midsummer, some animals had been rescued and a number of others had perished of starvation and disease.
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In this June 5, 2011 photo, Japanese animal rights activists Leo Hoshi (right) and Kei Asanuma grill meat to attract stray dogs as they try to rescue pets that evacuees from the nuclear exclusion zone left behind in the contaminated town of Okuma, Japan just three kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
In this June 18, 2011 photo, a farmer's pig rests in a puddle on main street near the train station in central Namie, Japan less then six miles from the crippled nuclear reactor. Farmers across the area had to hastily leave their homes and were unable to evacuate livestock, or return to the irradiated zone to care for them.
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In this June 18, 2011 photo, a hog naps after eating a meal inside an abandoned feed store and wandering the deserted streets of radiation-contaminated Namie, Japan.
In this June 8, 2011 photo, Keigo Sakamoto holds two of his dogs in the front yard of his house. Sakamoto, a Japanese egg farmer, lives in Naraha on the 12-mile boundary line of the exclusion zone around the damaged nuclear power station. He is allowed to stay in his home but must bypass the police barricades and lost his livelihood when the neighbors and nearby towns were evacuated.
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In this June 19, 2011 photo, a stray pet cat rests inside a dryer at an abandoned coin laundry in central Namie, Japan less than six miles from the crippled nuclear reactor.
In this June 18, 2011 photo, packaged items lie on the floor of a convenience store in Futaba, Japan near the nuclear power plant. The items were left untouched since the earthquake shook the region on March 11.
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In this July 10, 2011 photo, a water mark cuts across the backs of theater seats at a planetarium in Namie, Japan after tsunami waves swept across parts of the town.
In this June 19, 2011 photo, children's desks, backpacks, and school supplies lie abandoned inside an earthquake-rattled primary school classroom in Namie, Japan. Months have gone by since the students fled following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and it is uncertain when or if the children will be able to return or reclaim their possessions
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In this June 21, 2011 photo, police with glowing wands and vests and wearing protective face masks guard a road leading into the nuclear exclusion zone near the city of Minami-Soma, Japan. The sign behind them reads "Keep Out" in Japanese.
This July 25, 2011 photo shows the radiation-contaminated and abandoned town of Namie, Japan at dawn.
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Japan earthquake and tsunami anniversary: Fukushima homeless struggle with exile
Nearly a year on from the earthquake and tsunami which crippled north east Japan and the Fukushima nuclear plant, radiation fears keep tens of thousands of people from returning to homes.
While nearly a year has passed since Japan's massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake, for the residents of Okuma town in Fukushima, radiation has kept the crisis a real, if not always, visible and present danger.
The Fukushima Daiichi Plant, on the coast 150 miles (240km) northeast of Tokyo, was wrecked by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, triggering reactor meltdowns and radiation leaks that caused mass evacuations and widespread contamination.
For the nearly 11,000 residents of the town, and nearly 80,000 people unable to return home due to high radiation across the prefecture, while many of their houses are physically intact the mental scars remain deep.
Returning to move cabinets from her home on her third trip back, 74-year-old Miyoko Takeda explained that she has been unable to function properly since being forced to leave everything behind.
"It's like I have depression, I can't sleep, I can't eat, I lost 8 kilograms and when I went to the doctor I threw up everything I took. Now I can't sleep without medicine," Takeda said.
In the wake of the nuclear disaster the residents of Okuma have been scattered across the country in accommodation ranging from apartments to hastily constructing temporary housing.
For those living in such housing and without a clear answer on when they will be allowed to return, or even if they will be able to at all, some have lost hope.
"If it's a normal disaster you recover from it, and you go forward a bit every day. But this time you don't. All that's left is uncertainty. I just don't know when I can go back," said 47-year-old Tomiko Ikinobu.
The Japanese government declared the Daiichi nuclear plant to be in a state of "cold shutdown" last year but the Environment Ministry had said about 930 square miles (2,400 square km) of land around the plant may need to be decontaminated, an area roughly the size of Luxembourg.
Ikinobu lives with her four children in the temporary house, but has been unemployed since the disaster.
With over 11 months having passed since the disaster that caused so many to leave their homes, she only wants to know what the government plans to do so that she can finally plan her life.
"Once a year goes by, everything has a year added to it, so getting a new job gets harder. My kids are getting bigger as well. All I am asking for is a clear answer soon," Ikinobu said.
The government announced a road map for decommissioning the nuclear plant last December and said that it will take 30-40 years to fully decommission the power station.
It seems that for Okuma's former residents, the one-year anniversary may be the first of many away from their homes.
Nearly a year on from the earthquake and tsunami which crippled north east Japan and the Fukushima nuclear plant, radiation fears keep tens of thousands of people from returning to homes.
While nearly a year has passed since Japan's massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake, for the residents of Okuma town in Fukushima, radiation has kept the crisis a real, if not always, visible and present danger.
The Fukushima Daiichi Plant, on the coast 150 miles (240km) northeast of Tokyo, was wrecked by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, triggering reactor meltdowns and radiation leaks that caused mass evacuations and widespread contamination.
For the nearly 11,000 residents of the town, and nearly 80,000 people unable to return home due to high radiation across the prefecture, while many of their houses are physically intact the mental scars remain deep.
Returning to move cabinets from her home on her third trip back, 74-year-old Miyoko Takeda explained that she has been unable to function properly since being forced to leave everything behind.
"It's like I have depression, I can't sleep, I can't eat, I lost 8 kilograms and when I went to the doctor I threw up everything I took. Now I can't sleep without medicine," Takeda said.
In the wake of the nuclear disaster the residents of Okuma have been scattered across the country in accommodation ranging from apartments to hastily constructing temporary housing.
For those living in such housing and without a clear answer on when they will be allowed to return, or even if they will be able to at all, some have lost hope.
"If it's a normal disaster you recover from it, and you go forward a bit every day. But this time you don't. All that's left is uncertainty. I just don't know when I can go back," said 47-year-old Tomiko Ikinobu.
The Japanese government declared the Daiichi nuclear plant to be in a state of "cold shutdown" last year but the Environment Ministry had said about 930 square miles (2,400 square km) of land around the plant may need to be decontaminated, an area roughly the size of Luxembourg.
Ikinobu lives with her four children in the temporary house, but has been unemployed since the disaster.
With over 11 months having passed since the disaster that caused so many to leave their homes, she only wants to know what the government plans to do so that she can finally plan her life.
"Once a year goes by, everything has a year added to it, so getting a new job gets harder. My kids are getting bigger as well. All I am asking for is a clear answer soon," Ikinobu said.
The government announced a road map for decommissioning the nuclear plant last December and said that it will take 30-40 years to fully decommission the power station.
It seems that for Okuma's former residents, the one-year anniversary may be the first of many away from their homes.
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