Cartoon depicts Japan's worst nuclear accident

Cartoon depicts Japan's worst nuclear accident

HIROSHIMA, Japan - About 270 cartoons and illustrations from 35 countries including the United States and Russia are contributed to an antinuclear cartoon exhibition, which opened Oct. 9 in the western Japan city of Hiroshima for a 12-day session. A cartoon, submitted by a Japanese cartoonist Keiichi Makino, depicts a Sept. 30 nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing plant in Tokaimura, some 120 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001079631
  • Registered date
  • 1999/10/09 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 1999 Kyodo News
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  • 1864 × 1713 pixel
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  • Deployment size
  • 1.74(MB)*
  • Special instruction

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