Four years after the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and displaced more than 300,000, the surrounding towns of Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant … The total area of the town is 223.14 square kilometres.
"At the moment, there are huge areas that are still ghost towns," correspondent Lesley Stahl told 60 Minutes Overtime in the video above. "It's so detailed. Futaba is one of the two largest villages in the exclusion zone of Fukushima. "But I don't know if they'll ever restore the surrounding towns and have really whole, healthy communities. When it comes to questioning my ethics, ethical responsibility can never be factually accurate, because that in itself is subjective. However, the town was totally evacuated in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and residents were permitted return during daylight hours from May 2013. I did not alter the images presented to over exaggerate them in any way. Photos reveal what … A clock shows 2:46, and it always will. He then spent 12 hours in the area, exploring and photographing the abandoned buildings in several towns. In many places street lights were shining and under them there were dome CCTV cameras. The abandoned towns of Fukushima. "People can come back into some of the areas because they have been decontaminated. Every single last crevice of the town will be cleaned up somehow. There are also people working in these zones."More than 200,000 inhabitants within a 20km radius were forced to evacuate Namie, Japan, when an earthquake and tsunami caused a meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011."The red zone is closed but still a lot of people are working in this zone, renovating or demolishing buildings."The fact that people left this kind of value behind and never came back to pick anything up in 6-7 years, shows us the impact of the disaster.An abandoned town near Fukushima that has laid empty since the nuclear disaster forced everyone to flee has been uncovered in eerie new footage.Bob, from Heerlen, the Netherlands, said: "There was everything from books, magazines to CDs, DVDs, games consoles and all kinds of games.He said: "But while walking around in the area you notice how big the impact most have been for the inhabitants."There are three zones. A lot of residents have moved homes—and moved on, rebuilding their lives elsewhere. Fukushima's Ghost Towns ... wrecked cars and other debris is seen in the evacuated town of Namie, Japan in Fukushima prefecture Sept. 23, 2013. Fukushima's ghost towns. Damir Sagolj/Reuters.
Wind then carried that debris, contaminating all the towns in its path. The abandoned towns of Fukushima – Ghost Town. I can only say that my intentions were not malicious in any way from the very beginning.Keow says the difference between Chernobyl and Fukushima is that Chernobyl’s ghost towns have been looted clean of valuables, while the abandoned sites of Fukushima appear to be largely untouched.Keow got to the site by driving 4 hours with his assistant and then hiking to the zone through 25 kilometers of woods with a GPS starting at 2AM. Keow Wee Loong/Barcroft Images. Silence in Fukushima ghost town Jump to media player BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports on what has happened to villages around Fukushima since the … More than seven years after an earthquake and tsunami caused a meltdown at a nuclear power plant in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, surrounding towns are still frozen in time. "More than 7 years after one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, towns around Japan's nuclear power plant struggle to rebuild Still, some people are starting to filter back in.The streets are motionless. More than 7 years after one of the worst nuclear disasters in history, towns around Japan's nuclear power plant struggle to rebuild The town was evacuated as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster—being directly downwind from the power plant—and was within the exclusion zone set up in response to the disaster. The area will never be the same.Thousands of people were forced to flee seven years ago after an earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear meltdown in Japan"It's the perfect example of life after mankind or a scene straight out of The Walking Dead."Imagine you have to leave everything behind suddenly and never have the chance to go back.The lasting radioactive damage to the area surrounding the nuclear power plant meant the area was uninhabitable for a long time."For me as an urban explorer I had mixed feelings, I went to Fukushima to photograph the aftermath of the terrible disaster.Urban Explorer Bob Thissen visited the previously inaccessible area, with spots previously categorised as 'uninhabitable' due to the dangerous levels of radiation.Bob, who was filming for his YouTube series, Exploring the Unbeaten Path, says the area will never be the same."The government declares the green areas are safe, but most of the inhabitants will never return back home."
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Rebirth for Japan's nuclear 'ghost town' Jump to media player A Japanese town near the Fukushima nuclear plant has been declared safe from radiation and is inviting residents to return. We are part of the unexplained mysteries network.The worlds most mysterious placesFour years after the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami that left nearly 19,000 people dead or missing and displaced more than 300,000, the surrounding towns of Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant remain abandoned. Fukushima disaster: Ghost town residents free to return A town of 10,000 was evacuated in the aftermath of the nuclear meltdown - eight years later, residents are free to return. Inside the ghost towns of Fukushima Nuclear wasteland Eight years on from the tsunami and nuclear meltdown, much of Japan’s Fukushima province remains derelict and deserted.