At Nakamura Daiichi Elementary School in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, a theater company named La Tatan Sha recently staged a musical for the students that featured live painting.
Located on the coast in the north of the prefecture, Soma was hard hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. Altogether, of its 38,087 residents, 459 died, including 37 under the age of 19.
Since those disasters on March 11, however, survivors in this city that's just 40 km from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have also had to live with their fear of invisible radiation from that plant — even though the government claims that they face no short-term health risks.