Fukushima "No Go" Zone

On March 11 of this year a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. Since that time the plight of the victims has often been in my thoughts - the heroic nuclear power workers who stayed on to try to contain the damage, the elderly who refused to leave and accepted their fate, the animals who were left behind. A series of documentary photos of the no-go zone by Pierpaolo Mittica shows us what remains in the wake of this disaster.

Animal activist in search of abandoned animals in Odaka city, from the series Fukushima
 "No Go" Zone.

Mister Matsumoto, Yakuza member and TEPCO contractor is praying on his family grave,
 from the series Fukushima "No Go" Zone.

Despite the massive contamination, life still goes on inside the “No-Go Zone” and many stories between life and death are still inside. The story is still ongoing…

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