Olympic volunteers strive to share their stories of the 3/11 Fukushima nuclear disaster

Olympic volunteers strive to share their stories of the 3/11 Fukushima nuclear disaster

The Star Online - Lifestyle·2021-08-04 11:02

Atsushi Muramatsu’s handmade flyers are the size of a business card, written in several languages.

“Welcome to Miyagi Stadium,” one reads. “The gymnasium next door was the largest morgue for tsunami victims.”Over a decade after the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, the Tokyo Games were supposed to offer a chance to showcase how much has been rebuilt.They were even billed as the “Recovery and Reconstruction Games”, and the Olympic torch relay started from Fukushima prefecture, the heart of the nuclear disaster area.

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