Fukushima brewer dreams of returning to hometown

Fukushima brewer dreams of returning to hometown

TOKYO, Japan - Daisuke Suzuki (front R), chief brewer at a family-run rice wine brewery, is assisted by his 12-year-old son Genki (front L) to cool down steamed rice to be used for making sake in Nagai, Yamagata Prefecture, northwestern Japan, on Nov. 3, 2014. The brewery has been forced to move from the family's evacuated hometown of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, due to radiation spewed from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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