[Vo]:Video of abandoned towns near Fukushima reactors

2017-08-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
Here is a video of some abandoned towns and factories close to the Fukushima reactors, from the Asahi newspaper. Click on the video at the top. You can google-translate the text in this article to learn much of what the voice-over says. It is remarkable how quickly plants and forests take over

Re: [Vo]:Video of abandoned towns near Fukushima reactors

2017-08-01 Thread Jed Rothwell
The title is "Plants swallow up a town where people have disappeared. The summer of the 7th year after the nuclear accident." The author's name is Takehana, which Google freely translates as Mr. Bamboo. It is actually bamboo flower. Which is a little odd, because when a bamboo flowers, it dies.