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Fukushima nuclear disaster: An artists view 10 years later Japanese artist and filmmaker Hikaru Fujii told DW about the importance of embedding the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in public memory. Ten years ago, the Japanese prefecture witnessed an earthquake and tsunami that triggered an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant, causing a nuclear disaster whose effects were only preceded by those in Chernobyl in 1986. In its aftermath, artist and filmmaker Hikaru Fujii do...

Artists reflect on the Fukushima disaster, 10 years later A museum south of the exclusion zone features works by Japanese artists who deal with the disaster in their works, while trying to establish a culture of remembrance for coming generations. Artists and the Disaster: Imagining in the 10th Year By organizing the exhibition "Artists and the Disaster: Imagining in the 10th Year," the art center in the city of Mito (photo), which suffered damage from the earthquake of 2011, looks back on the...

Environmental groups say the crippled nuclear plant's decommissioning effort is hopeless. Some local people fear it is not safe to return to communities that were beneath the radioactive plume.