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Wearing white protective masks and suits, Yuzo Mihara and his wife Yuko pose for photographs on a deserted street in the town of Namie, inside the Fukushima nuclear disaster exclusion zone. Following the 11 March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, tens of thousands of people lost their homes and are still living in temporary housing. The 21,000 residents of Namie had to abandon their homes after the town was evacuated following the nuclear alert.
Picture: EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON
Yuko Mihara cleans her kitchen, which is covered with debris and putrefied foods, two years after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Many former Namie residents still hope to go back to their homes in the future, but they are only allowed to return home for a few hours to clean
their houses and collect some belongings. Picture: EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON
Yuko Mihara offers prayers to her ancestors in front of a family Buddhist altar. Residents are now waiting to receive compensation from the government and TEPCO,
the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Two years have passed since the disaster and frustration is gaining ground in the community.
Cloistered in small rooms at temporary housings, evacuees are living in total uncertainty about their future. Picture: EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON
Located within the 20-kilometre exclusion zone, Namie saw its coastal area in Ukedo wiped out by the tsunami, and its inland zone contaminated by radiation.
Picture: EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON
Clothes and furniture are strewn on the ground after the 11 March 2011 earthquake at the Miharas' house in the town of Namie
Picture: EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON
Large black plastic bags containing contaminated soil and leaves are stocked in a temporary storage facility in the town of Naraha, Fukushima prefecture
Picture: EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON
