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Back from the Brink: A city in ruins looks to the future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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As Japan's government gets set to expand a nuclear evacuation area, the mayor of a city inside the radioactive zone speaks about his fears.

David McNeill in Minami-Soma City

Like most Japanese men, Sakurai Katsunobu read apocalyptic comic book stories about the future when he was a boy. He never expected to live through one of those stories himself.

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Research Article
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 16 , April 2011 , e1
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