JR station near Fukushima nuke plant on way to recovery

SENDAI, Japan - The weed-covered Tatsuta Station in the town of Naraha on the JR Joban railway line is seen in the upper photo taken on Sept. 26, 2012, while the photograph below taken on Sept. 4, 2014, shows the station looking normal as train runs between Tatsuta and Hirono Station, south of Naraha, resumed in June this year.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001206384

Registered date
2014/9/06 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2014 Kyodo News

Media size
2806 × 3651 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
1.43(MB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows a railroad covered with grass in Namie (top), a northeastern Japan town near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, pictured on Sept. 11, 2014, and a JR train running on the same railroad (bottom), pictured on Feb. 17, 2021, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows decontamination waste from the Fukushima nuclear crisis (top) piled up along a JR railroad in Tomioka, a northeastern Japan town near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant, pictured on Sept. 10, 2015, and a JR train (bottom) running on the same railroad on Jan. 15, 2021, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Tsunami-destroyed railway station to be restored

SENDAI, Japan - East Japan Railway Co.'s Rikuchu-Yamada Station on the Yamada Line in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is seen in tatters in this file photo taken on March 23, 2011, a dozen days after it was hit by the devastating earthquake and tsunami. The company and the local community agreed on Dec. 24, 2014, to restore the station, burned down by a tsunami-caused fire, as part of a project to revive the line wrecked by the disaster.

Fukushima brewer dreams of returning to evacuated hometown

TOKYO, Japan - Ichio Suzuki, a Japanese sake brewer, visits on Sept. 26, 2014, the deserted grave of his father in the Ukedo district of Namie Town, Fukushima Prefecture, where tombstones are knocked down and a fishing boat remains stranded (background) due to the March 2011 tsunami. Suzuki and his family moved to Nagai, Yamagata Prefecture, after the accident at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant triggered by the disaster, and restarted their brewery business there.

Debris storage area in town near crippled nuke plant

FUTABA, Japan - Debris left by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Futaba, a town near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant crippled by the disaster in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima, is to be kept in a field on a temporary basis as seen in this photo taken on Dec. 17, 2014.

Rest station in town hit by nuke disaster luring visitors

TOMIOKA, Japan - A rest station in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, photographed on Sept. 26, 2014, is attracting an increasing number of visitors following the recent removal of local road traffic curbs imposed after the 2011 nuclear disaster. Opened in late August by a major construction company tasked with decontaminating the northeastern Japan town, the facility exhibits photos to help people understand cleanup work and has a bathroom and a lounge.

Contrast of cemetery before and after 2011 quake

ONAGAWA, Japan - A cemetery damaged by a tsunami-swept train car (above) is photographed on April 7, 2011, in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The cemetery was restored later, as shown in the photo below taken on Sept. 10, 2014, with a railway station building under construction in the background.

Cleanup work near pasture in town affected by nuke disaster

NAMIE, Japan - Workers conduct decontamination work near a pasture in a "difficult-to-return zone" of the town of Namie, near the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on Sept. 10, 2014, on the eve of the day marking three and a half years since a massive earthquake and tsunami ravaged northeastern Japan in 2011, leading to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

Fukushima Pref. port little changed due to power plant

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken on Nov. 14, 2012, (above), and Aug. 31, 2014, at Ukedo port in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, show little difference due proximity to a nuclear power plant crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Entry into the area is permitted only during the day due to radioactive contamination.

2011 disaster: farmland then and now

SENDAI, Japan - Farmland devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami still appeared unfertile a year and a half later, as shown in the photo (top) taken in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2012. Most of the same farmland now is planted with crops, as shown in the photo (bottom) taken on Sept. 1, 2014.