Bad FORTUNE ISLAND

An earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear disaster. Within short time in March 2011, three catastrophes bring bad luck over Fukushima, the once so-called Good Fortune Island. More than eight years after the tragic happenings that cost the life of almost 20,000 people and made tens of thousands homeless, normality has not yet returned. In Namie, a small city in close proximity to the fateful Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the entire population had to be evacuated on short notice due to radiation exposure. In April 2017, the Japanese Government suspended its evacuation order and former residents were permitted to return, but only a very few did so.

Today, Namie is still the depicted ghost town you feel lonely at.