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When Life Changed, Tōhoku Earthquake { 30 images } Created 7 Feb 2022

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  • Tomomi Yambe, mother of three is holding her son three-month-old, at a warehouse that doubles up as an indoor playground for children and a food distribution centre for residents who fear eating the local produce and drinking the tap water. Minamisoma, Fuksushima Prefecture.
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  • In fear of high levels of radiation  parents doesn't allow their children to play outdoors. Instead they come to the indoor playground at a warehouse that also serves as a distribution centre for residents who fear eating the local produce and drinking the tap water.<br />
Minamisoma, Fuksushima Prefecture, Japan
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  • A warehouse that doubles up as an indoor playground for children due to the high levels of radiation outdoors and a food distribution centre for residents who fear eating the local produce and drinking the tap water. Minamisoma, Fuksushima Prefecture, Japan.
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  • A pregnant mother of two twin boys are recieving survival kits at the NPO Bridge For Fukushima at a warehouse that doubles up as an indoor playground for children and a food distribution centre for residents who fear eating the local produce and drinking the tap water. Minamisoma, Fuksushima Prefecture.
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  • Radiation in the village Shidamyo is higher than two Geiger counters can measure, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan <br />
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Radioaktiviteten på marken i byn Shidamyo är högre än dessa vad två geigermätare kan mäta. Fukushima Prefektur, Japan
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  • Kiyoko Okoshi is showing her cultivation of shiitake mushrooms. The mushrooms are inedible due to the high levels of radiation.  Shidamyo, Fukushima Prefektur, Japan.
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  • Radioactive materials from Iidate village, collected by the Ministry of Environment. Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
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  • Radioactive materials from Iidate village, collected by the Ministry of Environment. Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
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  • Inside the evacuated zone, Fukushima, Japan
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  • Radioactive materials inside the evacuated zone, Fukushima, Japan
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  • Inside the evacuated zone, Fukushima, Japan.
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  • Children who's families lost everything in the tsunami March 11, 2011, are living at a temporary housing complex in Ishinomaki.
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  • Inside the evacuated zone, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in the horizon, Fukushima, Japan.
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  • Inside the evacuated zone, Fukushima, Japan.
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  • Inside the evacuated zone, Fukushima, Japan.
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  • A couple are looking out over he empty beach that has been closed for swimming due to high radiation levels in the water. The sea wall has been painted with flowers by volonteers to cheer the place up. The mayority of the houses were swept away with the tsunami, Toyoma Beach, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
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  • Most of the buildings were swept away in the tsunami that hit the Toyoma Beach March 11 2011. Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
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  • Prayers for the people who died in the tsunami, Toyoma Beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture.
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  • Temporary housing on a school yard, Onagawa, Japan.
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  • Tsuyako Taira who is 80 years old are sitting on her bed in her temporary housing in Ishinomaki that she is sharing with her son. They lost everything in the tsunami March 11, 2011.
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  • Children who lives in the temporary housing complex on the school yard, are on thier way to the Katariba evening school program, Onagawa, Japan.
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  • A boy on his way home from school in a radiation contaminated area of Fukushima City. Top soil is gathered underneath a blue tarp.
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  • Cleaning the streets of radiation in Fukushima City, Japan.<br />
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Gatorna rengörs från radioaktivt nedfall i Fukushima City, Japan.
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  • 10 000 bags of contaminated soil are being stored on a mountain in the village Shidamayo, 27 km from The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The bags will be stored at the mountain location for five years, then the bags will be move to Futaba, a town closer to the Nuclear Power Pant. Fukushima Prefecture, Japan<br />
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På ett berg i Shidamyo, 27 km från kärnkraftverket Fukushima Daiichi, lagras 10 000 säckar med kontaminerad jord. Här ska säckarna förvaras i 5 år, därefter ska de flyttas närmare kärnkraftverket till Futaba. Fukushima Prefektur, Japan
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  • Tomoyoshi Ide works at a large area for a temporary storage of radioactive soil in the village of Shidamyo. Fukushima Prefektur, Japan
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  • Noeko Akatska works at a large area for a temporary storage of radioactive soil in the village of Shidamyo. Fukushima Prefektur, Japan
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  • A geiger counter in the city square outside the train station in Fukushima City, Japan
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  • Tetsuya Hayashi, 43, jobbade med uppröjningsarbetet på kärnkraftverket Daiichi, Fukushima, Japan.<br />
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Fukushima plant worker Tetsuya Hayashi says he was hired to survey radiation levels in the field in 2012, but was instead sent to do maintenance work on a radiation treatment machine on his first day at work. He was not aware that the radiation exposure was high enough to burn through his yearly exposure allowance in just 20 minutes. When he complained to his employer, the TEPCO subcontractor RH Kougyou, he was fired. He has filed a complaint to the Ministry of Labour, who has failed to respond in over a year.<br />
The workers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have some of the world's most dangerous jobs for as little as 100 dollars a day.
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  • Tetsuya Hayashi, 43, jobbade med uppröjningsarbetet på kärnkraftverket Daiichi, Fukushima, Japan.<br />
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Fukushima plant worker Tetsuya Hayashi says he was hired to survey radiation levels in the field in 2012, but was instead sent to do maintenance work on a radiation treatment machine on his first day at work. He was not aware that the radiation exposure was high enough to burn through his yearly exposure allowance in just 20 minutes. When he complained to his employer, the TEPCO subcontractor RH Kougyou, he was fired. He has filed a complaint to the Ministry of Labour, who has failed to respond in over a year.<br />
The workers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant have some of the world's most dangerous jobs for as little as 100 dollars a day.
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  • A wall towards future tsunamis are being built at Obama Beach ("Small Beach" in Japanese), Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
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