Flying cars and space tourism: Fukushima shapes the future 12 years after nuclear disaster

Panoramic view of the Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field (FH2R) in Namie town in Fukushima. - ST

FUKUSHIMA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Imagine cars flying over Tokyo skyscrapers that were once lit up by nuclear energy but are powered by “green hydrogen” produced in north-east Japan.

That future is almost within reach in Fukushima, which has drastically reinvented itself following the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that occurred 12 years ago on March 11.