More than a decade has passed since the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear disaster, and in that time the nearby town of Futaba has tried to pick up the pieces of a community shattered by the event.
Now, young people from other parts of Japan and elsewhere are playing a part in resurrecting a community to which they have few links.
Since last year, Tohoku University undergraduate student Masayuki Kobayashi has teamed up with his Indian schoolmates and a Futaba-based association to rehabilitate the Fukushima Prefecture town's tarnished image.