Ten years on, Japan s Fukushima victims worry they ve been forgotten
Posted : 2021-01-02 14:14
Updated : 2021-01-02 22:35
People wearing masks are seen next to a board with messages mourning the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis, at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, March 11, 2020. Reuters
Sumio Konno used to invite neighborhood children and their parents to a barbeque in his garden, overlooking a forest and a pond where water birds would come and go. We would often get together and grill fish, mushrooms and freshly dug bamboo shoots. It was the epitome of a wonderful life, recalled Konno, a former nuclear plant worker, of his old home in rural, north-eastern Japan.