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Fukushima tourism aids healing

By Agence France-Presse in Namie, Japan | China Daily | Updated: 2016-03-07 08:07

It's almost five years since the tsunami and nuclear disaster forced survivors to leave town

Shinichi Niitsuma enthusiastically shows visitors the attractions of the small town of Namie: its tsunami-hit coastline, abandoned houses and hills overlooking the radiation-infested reactors of the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Five years after the nuclear disaster emptied much of Japan's northeastern coast, tourism is giving locals of the abandoned town a chance to exorcise the horrors of the past.

Fukushima tourism aids healing

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