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.
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