Waiting for No One (Inside the Exclusion Zone)


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Dogs wander around the town of Minamisoma, inside the deserted evacuation zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in northeastern Japan, Thursday, April 7, 2011: photo by Hiro Komae / AP





  • Trusting, for a while, that they will come back
  • and then after a while no longer remembering
  • that they were ever here.



  • An empty street runs through the deserted town of Minami Soma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, inside the evacuation zone, established for the 20 kilometer radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactors Thursday, April 7, 2011. Hundreds of Japanese police and soldiers were mobilized Thursday to begin their first major search operation inside the evacuation zone. Photo: David Guttenfelder / AP
  • An empty street runs through the deserted town of Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, inside the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactors, Thursday, April 7, 2011: photo by David Guttenfelder / AP