Homes are empty and radiation-contaminated soil piles up inside the “exclusion zone” near the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Workers search for radiation-contaminated debris in the city of Minamisoma. March 11 is the fifth anniversary of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that claimed the lives of 15,894, and the subsequent damage to the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
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Personal items are strewn around a tsunami-damaged home Minamisoma. The nuclear disaster forced the evacuation of 99,750 people.
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Thousands of bags of radiation-contaminated soil and debris wait to be processed in the town of Naraha.
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The elements and nature take over homes and businesses in the town of Namie.
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A graveyard stands in the tsunami-scarred landscape in Namie.
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A house in in Namie.
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