Next week marks 2 years since a magnitude-9-0 earthquake struck northeast Japan, triggering a tsunami that destroyed a vast stretch of coastline and sparking a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Reconstruction of the towns and villages worst hit by the tsunami has barely begun; hundreds of thousands of survivors languish in temporary housing, uncertain of where, or when, their vanished hometowns will be rebuilt. In Fukushima, an estimated 160000 people who lived within 20 km of the ruined power plant continue to live in a state of limbo.
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