Fukushima Prefecture measures radiation at schoolyards

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Employees of the Fukushima prefectural government measure radiation levels at an elementary school yard in the city of Fukushima on April 5, 2011. The local government began the measurements the same day in the wake of the nuclear emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001158258

Registered date
2011/4/05 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2011 Kyodo News

Media size
1585 × 1303 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
682.55(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Japanese high schooler teaches U.S. students calligraphy

CRESCENT CITY, United States - A male student from Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, teaches calligraphy to a student at Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, on Jan. 8, 2015. A group of Takata students visited the U.S. city to thank local people for sending back a school boat that was swept away by a tsunami caused by the devastating 2011 earthquake.

Rakuten opens indoor sports facility for Fukushima kids

SOMA, Japan - Rakuten Eagles catcher Yasuhito Uchida (8) and pitcher Takahiro Norimoto play with children on Dec. 18, 2014, at an event marking the opening of Soma Kodomo Dome, an indoor sports facility for kids built by Rakuten Baseball Inc. and others in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, before it opens to the public on Dec. 22. Many children in the northeastern Japan city lack in physical exercise as they have been barred from playing outdoors due to radioactive contamination from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Rakuten opens indoor sports facility for Fukushima kids

SOMA, Japan - Rakuten Eagles catcher (far R) Yasuhito Uchida and pitcher Takahiro Norimoto play with children on Dec. 18, 2014, at an event marking the opening of Soma Kodomo Dome, an indoor sports facility for kids built by Rakuten Baseball Inc. and others in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, before it opens to the public on Dec. 22. Many children in the northeastern Japan city lack in physical exercise as they have been barred from playing outdoors due to radioactive contamination from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Fukushima children perform play about home

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Elementary school children from the town of Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, perform an original play about their feelings for their hometown in November 2014 at a gymnasium in the city of Iwaki, also in the prefecture, where they have taken shelter since the March 2011 crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Fukushima children perform original play

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Elementary school children from the town of Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, perform an original play about their feelings for their hometown in November 2014 at a gymnasium in the city of Iwaki, also in the prefecture, where they have taken shelter. Futaba residents have not been allowed to return home due to high radiation levels stemming from the March 2011 crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Fukushima Univ. unveils new device to detect strontium-90

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yoshitaka Takagai, an associate professor at Fukushima University, explains a device his team developed to measure strontium-90, a radioactive isotope produced by nuclear fission, in Fukushima, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 27, 2014. The device is in use to analyze contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Fukushima students awarded for film about balloon bombs aimed at U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Nakoso 1st Junior High School in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, receive an award for their five-minute documentary, "There Once Was War Here," at ceremony for the Kid Witness News global video contest near New York on Oct. 15, 2014. For their video, the Fukushima students researched the desperate practice in the final states of World War II of attaching bombs to large balloons that were released from Japan's Pacific coast in hopes they would reach the United States.

Grade school boy poses before award-winning drawing

FUKUOKA, Japan - Shinnosuke Takagi, a fifth grader at an elementary school in Chikushino, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan, pose in front of his drawing (upper R) at the Fukuoka city office building on Oct. 5, 2014. He won a prize at an exhibition of drawings by Japanese, Chinese and South Korean preschool and elementary school pupils to promote understanding among the three countries.

Kids enjoy new playground tool at Fukushima park

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergarten pupils enjoy playing with a new tool at a municipal park in Hirono in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Oct. 1, 2014, following the removal of an evacuation order imposed in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Some 40 kindergartners were invited before the full reopening of the park next spring.

Kids enjoy play at nuke disaster-hit Fukushima park

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergarten children enjoy new playground equipment at a municipal park in Hirono in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Oct. 1, 2014, following the removal of an evacuation order imposed in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Some 40 kindergartners were invited before the full reopening of the park next spring.