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A view of the coastline near the Fukushima-Daiichi facility as Japan begins releasing wastewater from the crippled nuclear plant, in an operation it insists is safe but which has generated a fierce backlash from China. IMAGES
A small group of protesters gather near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant as the release of the wastewater into the Pacific Ocean is set to begin. IMAGES
Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida meets French President Emmanuel Macron in Hiroshima, ahead of the G7 summit. IMAGES
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits Bucha, where Russian forces were accused of massacring civilians during their weeks-long capture of the Kyiv-region suburb in 2022. IMAGES
Futaba, Mar 5 (EFE).- Time seems to have stopped a decade ago in the towns around Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. Most remain almost deserted despite the efforts of the authorities to decontaminate and revitalize the area since the nuclear disaster that was triggered by the massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.Newly paved but empty streets and brand-new train stations without a single passenger to be seen coexist in the restricted access area, where homes and businesses also remain abandoned.Traces of the accident that forced the evacuation of more than 160,000 people and the closure of entire towns due to radioactive contamination are still visible in the affected areas, where the Japanese government has invested multimillion-dollar sums to try and restore a sense of normalcy that still seems far away. (Camera: ANTONIO HERMOSÍN).SHOT LIST: STREETS IN THE TOWNS OF FUTABA, TOMIOKA, OKUMA AND NAMIE IN FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN. SOUND BITES: YASUSHI NIITSUMA, OWNER OF AN IZAKAYA IN THE TOWN OF NAMIE IN FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN. TRANSLATION: "It seems that they want to bring the torch route [through] to show the reconstruction, but the reconstruction has not even been completed.There is still a lot of garbage, there is a radioactive contamination deposit in Okuma, and also the water problem of the plant."
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