THE HEAD OF DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING OF FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR PLANT, NAOHIRO MASUDA, SAYING: “Regarding to reactor No.1, No.2 and No.3, to be honest, we still don’t know exactly the situation of the melted fuel and where it has fallen.” TOKYO, JAPAN 6. (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, SHINZO ABE, SAYING: “We are moving faster to improve the environment so that by March next year we hope to lift the evacuation orders in all regions except to the In Fukushima as well except for the most difficult areas.” Okayama, Japan - Oct 29, 2015 7. Okayama University campus 8. Pan of office 9. Professor Toshihide Tsuda working 10. SOUNBDITE (Japanese) Toshihide Tsuda, professor of environmental sciences, Okayama University: “The thyroid cancer occurrence rates among Fukushima residents who were up to 18 years of age in the year of the meltdown were 20 to 50 times higher than those in other parts of Japan. Even within Fukushima Prefecture the rates vary from place to place: the closer a location is to the Daiichi plant, the higher the cancer occurrence. This is the outcome of my analysis.” RIKUZENTAKATA, JAPAN (MARCH 8, 2016) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. TEMPORARY HOUSES ON SCHOOL PLAYGROUND 2. TEMPORARY HOUSES 3. VARIOUS OF SURVIVOR 2011 TSUNAMI, MASAKO SUGAWARA, KNITTING 4. PHOTOS OF SUGAWARA’S GRANDCHILDREN WHO WERE KILLED BY TSUNAMI 5. ALTAR WITH PHOTO OF SUGAWARA’S FAMILY 6. (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 70-YEAR-OLD TSUNAMI SURVIVOR, MASAKO SUGAWARA, SAYING: “My daughter never blames me. She says, ‘it’s not your fault, mom.’ But it was my husband who picked them up, and that guilty feeling hurts me since that day.” 7. SUGAWARA HOLDING KNITTED FLOWER 8. (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 70-YEAR-OLD TSUNAMI SURVIVOR , SUGAWARA MASAKO, SAYING: “To me, this is a way of helping me distract myself” 9. VARIOUS OF STUFFED ANIMALS AND DECORATIONS SUGAWARA KNITTED 10. (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 70-YEAR-OLD FAMILY OF 2011 TSUNAMI VICTIM, MASAKO SUGAWARA, SAYING: “Believing that my grandchildren are looking down from the heavens, I started putting this stuff all over the room. That’s how it began.” 11. VARIOUS OF TEMPORARY HOUSE RESIDENT HANGING OUT WASHING 12. VARIOUS OF TEMPORARY HOUSE RESIDENT TENDING TO FLOWERS 13. TRUCKS AND EXCAVATORS MOVING IN CONSTRUCTION SITE 14. BULLDOZER 15. TRUCKS 16. TRUCK DUMPING DIRT 17. VARIOUS OF TRUCK IN FRONT OF GIANT EMBANKMENTS 18. EXCAVATORS MOVING 19. TSUNAMI-DAMAGED BUILDING REMAINING STANDING 20. BROKEN WINDOWS OF THE BUILDING 21. VARIOUS OF CIVIL ENGINEER, TAKAHITO SAKURAI, AND HIS COLLEAGUE LOOKING AT CONSTRUCTION SITE 22. (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) CIVIL ENGINEER AT SHIMIZU CONSTRUCTION, TAKAHITO SAKURAI, SAYING: “When this project is completed, this city will become a place that will endure tsunamis. I hope people who fled their home come back again then.” 23. SURVIVOR OF THE 2011 TSUNAMI, SABURO AND MITSUKO OIKAWA, WALKING AROUND GRAVEYARD 24. VARIOUS OF OIKAWAS OFFERING FLOWERS BEFORE FAMILY GRAVE 25. VARIOUS OF OIKAWAS PRAYING 26. FLOWERS 27. (SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 2011 TSUNAMI SURVIVOR, 78-YEAR-OLD MITSUKO OIKAWA, SAYING: “Five years hasn’t help much in the way we feel. I see the giant embankments next to where my house used to stand, and that feels strange. I cannot find a word to describe it. I just sigh.”