• Yuji Onuma looks on as workers on Dec. 21 begin removing a sign bearing a slogan he wrote, in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, that reads 'Nuclear power: the energy for a bright future.' | KYODO
    Yuji Onuma looks on as workers on Dec. 21 begin removing a sign bearing a slogan he wrote, in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, that reads "Nuclear power: the energy for a bright future." | KYODO
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KOGA, IBARAKI PREF. – A few months before the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear crisis, a town near the plant began removing two signs that unintentionally became ironic reminders of how Japan once blindly worshipped atomic power.

A slogan above a street in Futaba town center since 1988 read “Nuclear power: the energy for a bright future.” The town is now radioactive and empty, with all of its residents evacuated.

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