Murals depicting former residents of a town left deserted by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster have been painted on buildings on its main streets in an effort to maintain morale among evacuees ahead of what is hoped will be their eventual return.
Two murals of a boy who was 2 at the time of the disaster were unveiled Sunday in Futaba, which is home to part of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. They join several other murals painted since the project was launched earlier this year.