REMINDER OF A CATASTROPHE This photo taken on July 16, 2015 shows a vehicle and houses damaged by the March 11, 2011 tsunami still untouched after four years, in the village of Tomioka north of Naraha in Fukushima prefecture. Activists say despite government assurances that areas like Naraha and others further away from the Fukushima nuclear plant are safe, many still show highly-elevated levels of contamination, and many are unfit for habitation. AFP PHOTO
REMINDER OF A CATASTROPHE
This photo taken on July 16, 2015 shows a vehicle and houses damaged by the March 11, 2011 tsunami still untouched after four years, in the village of Tomioka north of Naraha in Fukushima prefecture. Activists say despite government assurances that areas like Naraha and others further away from the Fukushima nuclear plant are safe, many still show highly-elevated levels of contamination, and many are unfit for habitation. AFP PHOTO

IITATE, Japan: Sweating inside their plastic protection suits, thousands of men toil in Japan’s muggy early summer in a vast effort to scrub radiation from the villages around Fukushima.

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