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Fukushima pride is strong close to evacuation zone
Ohashi owns a successful baked goods company in Fukushima City. He has used grains from organic farmers in Fukushima Prefecture, but now he may have to look elsewhere. Even if the grains are...
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Yoshizawa defies government order to kill his 300 irradiated cows: Video
Yoshizawa’s ranch is 14km downwind from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The government ordered him to kill his 300 cows. Most of his neighbors’ animals are gone, but some have been released...
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Evacuated farmer Yoshizawa wants to stand up to Japanese government and...
After the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, Yoshizawa cared for his 300 dairy cows without water or electricity. He could hear the explosions as the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, 14 km away....
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Into the evacuation zone
Hidden under a tarp, wedged between 50-gallon sacks of steaming bean sprouts on a flatbed trailer, we passed unnoticed through the checkpoint into the 30km evacuation zone around the crippled...
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“Don’t forget us,” cry Fukushima nuclear evacuees
Tens of thousands of people evacuated due to radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant are living in shelters and storage unit-style temporary housing. Nearly 100 have...
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Carry On Fukushima
This video was presented at the Institute for Strategic Leadership‘s “Carry On Fukushima” program in Tokyo on 7/21/11. It includes voices from food producers in the area around the still-leaking...
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The Harvest Approaches
Sugeno relaxes in the grass beside his radish field, Geiger counter in hand. Junko and Sugeno finish planting radishes in his mountaintop field in Nihonmatsu. Guests at Sugeno's farm enjoy flowers...
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Eating Fukushima
by Ed M. Koziarski North Avenue Magazine Jan. 28, 2012 When does a victim become a perpetrator? That’s the question that kept coming up as we made our way across the irradiated landscape. Many...
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Asami Girls
Organic farmer Asami’s wife and daughters evacuated in March 2011 from Aizu, 130 km west of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Asami only saw his daughters a few times last year. In the...
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Would You Stay?
We were prepared to talk our way past a police checkpoint—or play dumb, in my case. But we drove right over the border unaccosted. 13 months after the tsunami, the fields remain strewn with twisted...
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