• One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    Protester at an anti-nuclear power demonstration

    Client: Greenpeace Magazin

  • —

    One year after the earthquake and devastating tsunamis which also led to the catastrophe at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, life in Tokyo has changed dramatically. People are still traumatized by the loss of so many lifes, destruction and the invisible danger of radiation. Portraits and moods from a scarred city.

    —
  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    Shimmy Shimizu Hirataka – musician

    He organized more than forty charity concerts to support children in orphanages who had lost their parents in the tsunamis.

  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    Highrise in the Ueno district

  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    Ryoko Tomomori – animal welfarist

    The animal welfarist Ryoko Tomomori repeatedly went into the forbidden area around the wrecked nuclear power plant and rescued countless dogs and cats. After decontaminating them she tried to bring them back to their owners.

  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    Advertisment for travels to the Fukushima region

  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    The Tanoue family

    They felt cheeted by the government and badly informed by the authorities.

  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.
  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    Eisuke Tachikawa – designer

    He quickly created a website which collected and shared information which met the needs of the people in the Fukushima area. Shortly after it went online more than a million visits.

  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    Protester at an anti-nuclear power demonstration

  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    Keisuke Matsumoto – buddhist monk

    He challenges the attitude of buddhism towards nuclear power. Some reactors in Japan were named after old Bodhisattvas.

  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    Visitor of a temple

  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.

    Tomoyuki Taira –politician

    The MP of the Democratic Party Japan is member of the comission which investigates the incidents at the wrecked nuclear power plant.

  • One year after the earthquake and tsunamis, followed by the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, life in Tokyo has changed. Story for Greenpeace Magazine.
close
Wonderful Machine