Toru Akama, a 62-year-old living in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, turned his home and his childhood home into an animal shelter, caring for the pets while looking for people to help foster them.

Some animals died of hunger. Others, abandoned in the shadow of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant, were slaughtered. But one man – in a defiant show of protest and hope – has kept his ...

Following the March 2011 accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power ... For 10 years, he has taken care of animals abandoned by those who left. Only a few people have since returned ...

Fukushima Initiative Projects (FIPs) supplement the FCPs and are supported by the IAEA. Activities include monitoring the movement of radionuclides in river waters, in wild animals, in seepage from ...