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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.
—Shimmy Shimizu Hirataka – musician
He organized more than forty charity concerts to support children in orphanages who had lost their parents in the tsunamis.
Highrise in the Ueno district
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.
Advertisment for travels to the Fukushima region
The Tanoue family
They felt cheeted by the government and badly informed by the authorities.
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.
Protester at an anti-nuclear power demonstration
Keisuke Matsumoto – buddhist monk
He challenges the attitude of buddhism towards nuclear power. Some reactors in Japan were named after old Bodhisattvas.
Visitor of a temple
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.