Fukushima Reverend Prays For Revival Of Radiation-hit Church
By Shingo ITO
03/08/21 AT 11:24 PM
Reverend Akira Sato dreams of hearing hymns echo once again through the church he was forced to leave behind after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster a decade ago.
Ten years after a tsunami overwhelmed the cooling systems at the nearby plant, sending it into meltdown, the Fukushima First Bible Baptist Church is a shell haunted by memories.
"In the past when I've come back here and looked around, I couldn't stop my tears from falling," Sato said on a visit to the church in Okuma town, five kilometres (3 miles) from the crippled plant.