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Eating Fukushima
by Ed M. Koziarski North Avenue Magazine Jan. 28, 2012 When does a victim become a perpetrator? That’s the question that kept coming up as we made our way across the irradiated landscape. Many...
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Uncanny Terrain in the Chicago Reader
by Sam Worley Chicago Reader Along with Junko Kajino, occasional Reader contributor Ed M. Koziarski is codirector of Uncanny Terrain, a documentary about effects from last year’s tsunami and nuclear...
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One Year After the Meltdown
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Our second year with Fukushima farmers fighting for their land
Organic farmer Akihiro Asami's wife and daughters evacuated in March 2011 from Aizu, 130 km west of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The girls only saw their father a few times last year. In...
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Return to Shikisaisai
Hiroaki Yoshida had his rice tested at several labs. None of it showed any detectible radiation. Despite testing clean, Yoshida struggles to find new customers for rice grown on the southern outskirts...
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Would You Stay?
We were prepared to talk our way past a police checkpoint—or play dumb, in my case. But we drove right over the border unaccosted. 13 months after the tsunami, the fields remain strewn with twisted...
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Organic farmer father, nuclear engineer son
85-year-old Teruo Yasukawa has an organic farm on the edge of the nuclear exclusion zone. Last year Yasukawa challenged city officials for the right to grow rice for personal consumption. Yasukawa...
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Saitos spread zeolite
Father and son Saito powder their rice field with government-mandated zeolite. It’s intended to fix cesium in the soil to reduce absorption by crops, but some question its effectiveness and health...
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Sugeno soil test
Niigata University researchers test the effect of various combinations of soil additives on the absorption of radioactive cesium by Sugeno’s rice.
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Asami’s Tokyo volunteers
Tokyo volunteers make their annual weekend trip to Kitakata in western Fukushima to help Asami clear debris from the village’s 200-year-old irrigation canal.
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