People walk on a beach at a seaside park in Tokyo on July 22, 2018. Japan’s severe heatwave killed at least 15 people and sent more than 12,000 to the hospital in the first two weeks of July, official figures show as the temperature neared 40 degrees C (104 F) in many cities on July 22. Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP

Japan has reopened three beaches in regions devastated by the 2011 tsunami and resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster after years of reconstruction efforts, officials said Monday.

Local officials in Fukushima said they hoped the opening of the Haragamaobama beach would help change perceptions of the region, which has become inextricably linked with the 2011 disaster.

One of the reopened waterfronts is Haragamaobama beach in Fukushima prefecture, about 40 kilometres north of the crippled Daiichi nuclear plant.

The beach in the city of Soma is the closest to the plant of four beaches that the prefecture has reopened.

“I’m delighted because life in Soma had always been associated with the sea before the disaster,” Hiroyuki Ito, secretary general of the Soma Tourism Association, told AFP.

Water quality inspection has not detected radioactive materials in the offshore seawater for years, and reopening the beach was only delayed while infrastructure for bathers was being built, he said.

“I used to play on the beach as a child every day… but I couldn’t let my daughter have the same experience, as she was a sixth grader” when the disaster hit the region, he said.

“Even now, if you Google search images for ‘Fukushima’, the top search result shows a lot of photos of the nuclear plant and other negative images… but our everyday lives here are returning back to normal,” he said.

“We want people in foreign countries to know that Soma is a place to visit,” he said, noting that the association uploaded the image of the opening of the beach Saturday on its Twitter account @somakankokyokai.

Two other beaches affected by the devastating tsunami in Miyagi prefecture, north of Fukushima, also reopened this weekend, Miyagi officials said.

Beaches on Japan’s northern Pacific coast have been gradually reopening after the construction of huge dikes to prevent future tsunami damage and the restoration of sand that was washed away in the 2011 disaster.

On March 11, 2011, a devastating 9.1-magnitude quake struck under the Pacific Ocean, and the resulting tsunami caused widespread damage and claimed thousands of lives.

It also sent three reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant, causing Japan’s worst postwar disaster and the most serious nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.

No one died from radiation but tens of thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes near the plant.

Many are still living in other parts of Japan, unable or unwilling to go back home.

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You are welcome back to the beach.
Time to have fun!

Made in Japan
Quality like no other


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When you see it...

If it is somewhere in west Africa the beaches won't be closed in the first place because they don't value human lives, and when people's noise becomes too much due to happens in the place, the government will close it but not do anything and it will become a place for evil things.

Before that Tsunami Disaster, I went to the beach to meet a meat seller, but offer me a pork, that was when I mete a punishment on him, them he stated beef with me

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Made in Japan

CriticMaestro:
Made in Japan
Quanlity like no other


The person above me is as senseless as goat buhari

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Still vividly remembered this incident ,made me to understand more about nuclear reactors .

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Seriously? And yet the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that were nuked since August 1945, are scantily occupied till date. Only the japanese can tell the world first hand the power of nukes and what detonating them feels like. Won't be a good story to tell though.

alexistaiwo:


Is "Quanlity" an English word or your native language

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nigeriapenbase:

People walk on a beach at a seaside park in Tokyo on July 22, 2018. Japan’s severe heatwave killed at least 15 people and sent more than 12,000 to the hospital in the first two weeks of July, official figures show as the temperature neared 40 degrees C (104 F) in many cities on July 22. Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP



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alexistaiwo:


Is "Quanlity" an English word or your native language

New Word

mary42k2:
God, y am i a Nigerian?

Dont ask God. Ask your papa and mama who did not seek for your permission before giving birth to you .

CriticMaestro:
Made in Japan Quanlity like no other

The person above me is as senseless as goat buhari

No joy

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don4real18:
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hopefully

Japanese government is just way too organized and people-oriented

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EricBloodAxe:
Seriously? And yet the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that were nuked since August 1945, are scantily occupied till date. Only the japanese can tell the world first hand the power of nukes and what detonating them feels like. Won't be a good story to tell though.

You mean highly dense Hiroshima that has over a million residents or Nagasaki that has over half a million inhabitants?