A woman who fled her hometown near the Fukushima No. 1 power plant during the nuclear crisis in 2011 has published an illustrated book depicting the struggles of those who were forced to relocate by the radioactive fallout.
With the book titled "Someday . . . A story of a Mother Relocated from Fukushima," written in Japanese, Nana Aihara, a former kindergarten teacher in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, hopes to convey to future generations the experience and hardships she and her fellow residents suffered.
Before the disaster, the 36-year-old Minamisoma native lived in Kashima Ward, just over 30 km north of the aging and poorly protected power plant.