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Sugeno fights for his Fukushima farm
Seiju Sugeno is an organic farmer in Towa, Nihonmatsu, 50 km from the failed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The Abukuma Mountains partly shielded his rice fields from contamination, but runoff...
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Eating Fukushima
by Ed M. Koziarski North Avenue Magazine Jan. 28, 2012 When does a victim become a perpetrator? That’s the question that kept coming up as we made our way across the irradiated landscape. Many...
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To the East Coast and On to Fukushima
Today Uncanny Terrain codirector Junko Kajino begins an East Coast mini-tour, presenting scenes from the in-progress documentary for schools and community groups. Please join her if you’re in the...
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One Year After the Meltdown
Please join our IndieGoGo campaign to help Uncanny Terrain return to Fukushima.
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Asami Girls
Organic farmer Asami’s wife and daughters evacuated in March 2011 from Aizu, 130 km west of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Asami only saw his daughters a few times last year. In the...
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Organic farmer father, nuclear engineer son
85-year-old Teruo Yasukawa has an organic farm on the edge of the nuclear exclusion zone. Last year Yasukawa challenged city officials for the right to grow rice for personal consumption. Yasukawa...
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Saitos spread zeolite
Father and son Saito powder their rice field with government-mandated zeolite. It’s intended to fix cesium in the soil to reduce absorption by crops, but some question its effectiveness and health...
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Ishii’s cucumbers
Ishii used to deliver food to Japanese restaurants in Maryland. For years he studied EM (effective microogranisms) as a hobby. Now he grows organic vegetables in Sukagawa, 60 km southwest of the...
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Our results are in.
After spending 30 of the past 55 weeks in Fukushima, Japan, living in places contaminated by nuclear fallout, visiting even more highly contaminated places, drinking the water and eating the food, we...
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Rio+20: Four Fukushima Farmers
This video, capturing the diverse views of four Fukushima activist farmers, screens beginning June 16 in the Rio+20 United Nations Sustainable Development Conference, where one of our main subjects,...
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