One year late, Tokyo Olympics torch relay to get up and running
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One year late, Tokyo Olympics torch relay to get up and running
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Mar 12, 2021
“Fukushima is famous for agriculture, and its coastal region was once one of the richest rice-growing areas (in Japan),” Ryoichi Sato says, highlighting one of the prefecture’s prized assets. “Here, you can enjoy fresh green paddies in spring and beautiful golden rice fields in autumn.”
Sato was forced to abandon his hometown of Odaka, part of Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture, for six years following the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters that devastated the region in March 2011, returning in 2017 to found a company called Kohbai Yume Farm.
Named after the
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ōbai plum flower that used to be the town’s symbol and combining it with the Japanese word for “dream,” the farming venture relies on “smart agriculture,” using machinery such as drones and information and communication technology to make up for a shortage of workers.
Young families brave the radiation to repopulate towns devastated by Fukushima
A decade on from the second-worst nuclear accident in history, newcomers are giving the area a vital injection of youth
11 March 2021 • 7:00am
Nana Matsumoto is one of the youngest to have already made the move
Credit: Robert Gilhooly/The Telegraph
Even inside his log-cabin home, in an idyllic valley in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, the geiger counter clipped to Nobuyoshi Ito’s jacket gives off a near-constant crackle. But every time he goes to put another log on the wood burner in a corner of his living room, it intensifies into a single, drawn-out cacophony.