Ten years after disaster, Fukushima's 'singing' pottery comes home

Toshiharu Onoda, 59, the 13th generation to take on his family pottery business, looks at his studio damaged by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Namie town, near the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Elaine Lies

NAMIE, Japan (Reuters) - Toshiharu Onoda, a thirteenth-generation potter living in a town close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, had just finished loading his kiln on March 11, 2011, when the massive earthquake struck.

Clinging to a wall as the room filled with choking dust, Onoda watched stunned as his two-tonne kiln began to move across the floor.