Namie, Fukushima

Namie is a Town located in Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Quotes Four years ago, the fishing town of Namie, on the northeast coast of Japan, lived through an experience of malediction biblical in scope. Beginning at 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, without warning, the town’s population of 23,000 was struck by a triple disaster in quick succession: an earthquake measuring nine on the Richter scale that severely damaged the upper town, a fifteen-meter tsunami that carried away the entire lower town, and finally, in the days that followed, a blanket of radioactivity, from explosions in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant just six miles away, that settled over the town’s ruins. Michael Ignatieff, "Fukushima: The Price of Nuclear Power," New York Review of Books, August 12, 2015 External links