After the aftermath, Fukushima

A fifty-year goodbye

Fukushima

This diagram makes it very clear. 
Each name representing a village or a small town.

Aizu Wakamatsu 会津若松 あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

More information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizuwakamatsu,_Fukushima

Aizu Wakamatsu   会津若松  あいづわかまつ

Earthquakes 地震 じしん

地震

11 March 2011 Sendai Earthquake

a horror unfolding

20000 lives lost and still counting…

first there is shock and horror…

then there is just desolation… 

Sendai Airport’s runways

and then there is almost endless sorrow…

 before

 after

and more and more destruction,

unbelievable destruction

As far away as Tokyo and Yokohama the quake

is felt and damage is recorded

the subsequent drama that unfolded:

the Fukushima nuclear power plants’ disaster

The drama continues still now…