In Okuma, Japan, Takuya Haraguchi grows fruit to show how far the Fukushima area has come since tsunami triggered reactor meltdown in 2011
A short drive from the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in northeast Japan, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the spring sunshine, bringing life back to a former no-go zone.
Haraguchi was 11 years old when the country’s strongest earthquake on record struck in March 2011, unleashing a tsunami that left 18,500 people dead or missing.
The wall of water crashed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing a devastating reactor meltdown.
“Everyone knows about the nuclear accident. But not many people know about this area, and how it’s moving forward,” Haraguchi, tanned from working on his farm, says.
