Church Untouched Ten Years After Fukushima
Thursday, March 18th, 2021
A church in Japan has not been touched in a decade after it was caught up in the nuclear catastrophe of 2011.
The Fukushima First Bible Baptist Church in Okuma is just over four kilometres from the epicentre of the disaster which was caused by an earthquake and tsunami.
Premier News reports the church is located within an area where the government continues to enforce a no-go rule due to the danger of radiation.
The building is worn from being left dormant for ten years.
A notice for the upcoming Sunday service due to take place in March 2011 still hangs on the billboard outside.
Saturday 13 March 2021
Tokyo - In March 2011, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Japan’s northeast coast, causing a deadly tsunami that triggered a nuclear meltdown.
AFP’s Tokyo bureau mobilised quickly, and journalists have spent years reporting from the affected Tohoku region. A decade after the disaster, which left around 18,500 people dead or missing, AFP journalists returned to the area to report a series of stories ahead of the anniversary.
Picture taken by a Miyako City official on March 11, 2011 (AFP / Jiji Press)
Four of the journalists involved in that coverage also reported from Tohoku for AFP in the immediate aftermath of the disaster text reporters
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This picture, taken on Feb. 27, 2021, shows the abandoned building of the old Fukushima First Bible Baptist Church inside the exclusion zone in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture ― an area declared a no-go zone after the 2011 nuclear disaster. AFP-Yonhap
The nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power plant in Japan has not left any statistically detectable damage on the population, according to a new report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR).
The nuclear radiation from the accident has not increased the risk for cancer beyond normal, according to the report which was published on Tuesday, ahead of the ten-year anniversary of the catastrophe.
Ten years after a tsunami overwhelmed the cooling systems at a nearby nuclear plant, sending it into meltdown, the Fukushima First Bible Baptist Church is a shell haunted by memories. DURATION: 02:29