Nuclear disaster epicenter town being left to ruin

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo, taken Feb. 18, 2013, shows shoes scattered around the entrance at abandoned Kumamachi Elementary School in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. Located within 3 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the school was relocated to the prefectural city of Aizuwakamatsu.

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