Fukushima people lament evacuation in satirical poems

Fukushima people lament evacuation in satirical poems

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yoichi Konno (L) posts a satirical poem about his sorrow of being unable to return to his home in the Shimotsushima district in Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 9, 2014, despite the passage of three years since the nuclear disaster in March 2011, as he leaves there after a brief visit.

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