The Deadliest Line in Japan: Inside Fukushima’s Exclusion Zone

I return to Namie, 8 km from Fukushima, as my aunt Kuniko waits for a map that could split the town and decide if she can ever go home. Once a place of slow, magical summers, Namie is now a patchwork of zones and permits. Kuniko, an entrepreneur who ran a wedding salon, funeral parlor and a patisserie, was granted special entry to the Forbidden Zone to check the family businesses. The coastal district was swept away by the tsunami; the central town battered by quakes and continuous tremors. Like thousands from Namie, her community scattered across Japan,… Video by YouTube channel.