Guy Sneaks Into The Fukushima Red Zone To Take Haunting Photos

The photos, reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, are haunting.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 8 years ago in Funny

The photos, reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, are haunting.

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Never seen before photo of the fukushima exclusion zone. When i enter the red zone, i can feel a burning sensation in my eyes and thick chemical smell in the air. before i went there the authority told me that i need a special permit to visit this town and it take 3-4 weeks to get the approval from the local council,, well too much bureaucracy bullshit for me..so i just sneak in the forest to avoid cops on the road …AND IT WAS AMAZING !!!!!, I still remember what is like to only have a GPS and google map walking in the wood at 2am in the morning to get into the town of okuma,futaba and namie. Have you ever wonder what is like in fukushima exclusion zone now ??? . to feel what is like to be the only person walking in the town when you have 100% full access to every shop and explore??. when i was young i always had a dream like this, If i’m alone in a supermarket i will eat all the chocolate up XD …. everything is exactly where it is after the earthquake struck this town . the reident started to evacuate the town when tsunami warning came in ….hours later the fukushima daichi power plant exploded that lead to harmful radiation leaked. The radiation level is still very high in the red zone. not many people seen this town for the last 5 years…is like it vanished … i can find food,money,gold,laptop and other valuable in the red zone….I’m amaze that nobody looted this town clean. unlike chernobyl the entire town is been looted clean. this is the difference between chernobyl disaster and the fukushima disaster

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the Empty ghost town of fukushima,

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abandon home in the yellow zone.
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inside a shoe stall in the ghost town

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eerie feeling in this ghost town, even there is no car in this town but the traffic light is still working
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the abandon supermarket since 2011, alot of wild animal came into the mall to look for food because some owner abandon their animal when the tsunami hit back in 2011
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found alot of porno magazine in the book store at fukushima exclusion zone, march 2011 edition

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The book store
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listerine mouthwash since 2011
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the video rental store, with 2011 movie poster out side the shop , half of the store is selling hentai video

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laundry left behind in fukushima red zone since march 2011, people left so quickly they forgot their landry… 5 years later is still here , i found alot of 100 yen coin all around this shop.
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in the florist shop…. it smell like dead flower here
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building destroy due to the earthquake

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While most people visit a country to see its sight and sounds, Malaysian photographer Keow Wee Loong chose an unexpected “tourist” destination – the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan. That’s right, the town that suffered the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Located only an hour and a half away from Tokyo, Fukushima was once a popular tourist destination with its hot spring villages (onsen) and traditional kokeshi dolls. The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant triple meltdown devasted the affected towns into a ghost town. 470,000 people were evacuated from the area. They dropped everything and left immediately, leaving their possessions behind. To protect people from radiation poisoning, the government designated a 20KM radius around the power plant that is until now still prohibited without a special permit from the local council. Keow snuck into the Fukushima Exclusion Zone with a Japanese friend and photographed the eerie scenes of the abandoned town. The photos, reminiscent of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, are haunting. All the items, from parked cars to half-folded laundry, are still exactly where they left them five years ago.
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Time stop on march 2011 in the town okuma,namie,futaba,tamioka
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another huge super market in Namie , york benimaru.