A recent decision to remove pro-nuclear signs spanning roads in a deserted town that cohosts the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant has prompted the slogan's author to make a call to let them stand as symbols of the disaster.
Futaba native Yuji Onuma, 39, who now lives in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture, was a sixth-grader at a public elementary schoolwhen he wrote the slogan, which adorns a sign at the entrance to Futaba that reads: "Nuclear power: The energy for a bright future."
He visited the town Monday to persuade its officials to keep the signs, which came to symbolize it, as a warning to future generations.