Play about Fukushima post-disaster struggle

NEW YORK, United States - Soma Mayor Hidekiyo Tachiya speaks before a performance of a play titled ''Hikobae'' at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 12, 2012. The piece depicts the efforts of doctors, nurses and firefighters who risked their lives to protect patients and residents, based on interviews with medical staff at a hospital in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, which was hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster and ensuing nuclear crisis.

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