A farm worker checking on plants at ReFruits, a company hoping to revitalise agriculture in the area by growing kiwi fruits, some 5km from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima prefecture. — AFP
A SHORT drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the spring sunshine, bringing life back to a former no-go zone.
Haraguchi was 11 years old when Japan’s strongest earthquake on record struck in March 2011, unleashing a tsunami that left 18,500 people dead or missing.
