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