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Video | Finding a future in Fukushima after Japan’s worst nuclear accident

  • Along the Fukushima coast, towns are in the middle of a building boom 13 years after the area was hit by a devastating nuclear disaster

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Finding a future in Fukushima after Japan’s worst nuclear accident

Finding a future in Fukushima after Japan’s worst nuclear accident

Thirteen years after the Japanese prefecture of Fukushima was rocked by an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, towns that were once deemed too radioactive for long-term habitation are in the midst of a building boom.

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But as Japan struggles with a falling population, will people move to an area that remains blighted by the threat of radiation and ongoing release of treated water from the Daiichi nuclear power plant?

In this edition of SCMP Films, we visited towns along the Fukushima coast, where residents continue rebuilding their lives under the shadow of one of the world’s worst nuclear accidents.

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