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.
Many of Rina Tsugawa’s peers have left for jobs in cities, an outflow common to rural Japan but accelerated by the tsunami and nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima. Ms. Tsugawa has different plans.
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