Giant crack caused by Great East Japan Earthquake left in Kibo no Bokujo farm (in Namie-cho, Fukushima Prefecture)
In a farm in Namie-cho, Fukushima Prefecture, there still is a crack opened by the Great East Japan Earthquake. The 100-meter long scar of the earthquake with a seismic intensity of Upper 6 cut through the farm.
The farm called Kibo no Bokujo Fukushima (Farm of Hope in Fukushima) is run by Masami Yoshizawa, 62, and other Fukushima farmers to attend approximately 330 head of cattle remaining in the area after being affected by the nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The cows will not be sold to the market and Tohoku University and some other institutions examine the health condition of them periodically. There is a landslide left untouched in the farm, as well.
Namie-cho is still in the no-entry zone after the nuclear accident. The plant’s exhaust stacks can be seen from the farm which is only 14 kilometers away from the plant. “I want to fill in the crack in the meantime,” said Yoshizawa. “But people are already starting to forget about the accident. I want to live the rest of my life as a storyteller,” he continued.
(Mar. 11, 2016)