Japan's Worst Nuclear Disaster Still Haunts Fukushima 

"their souls are still on this farm" God bless this man. Making me cry for cows.

That farmer has a huge heart & truly cares about his cows

That car was so lucky. Turned around right in time. Wonder if it was fast enough to get away.

The man who stayed and took care of his cows is amazing. I so admire his spirit. He is truly an amazing man. He see's what happened and has learned from it. He cares for life. yet doesn't blame others for making a different choice. What a beautiful soul. I saw him in another video as well. He is what stands out to me and his message about what damage nuclear power can do to all living things. Thank you for sharing this.

I wish there was a gofundme for that cow farmer. He even used his TEPCO money to care for these cows, knowing full well he would never get any money in return from them. A good man indeed.

This guy is a living embodiment of what it means to be a good farmer. You can tell how heavy that responsibility weighs on him.

this is hearbreaking but thank you. This should not be forgotten.

The cow farmer- he deserves to be a saint. He IS a saint. I hope everything good in life happens to him, bless him!!!

I was not expecting that image of dead starved cows. Poor cows 😭😭😭

It hurts my heart to see people struggling a decade after this horrible disaster. Why can't we take better care of each other and the earth?

0:20 that car quickly realised he didn’t need to go that way

Damn we really need a series called Fukushima from HBO

Damn, that's 10 years ago?? Feels like it happened only yesterday or a year of so..

someone get a gofundme for this old man and his cows hes adorable

That’s a true farmer 👩‍🌾 I respect that man

That man loved those cows. My heart aches for him. Also I’m so relieved to hear all those kids escaped the school in time. Hats off to the faculty for moving quickly!

Beautiful, this is the part of farmers that doesn't make it to media. There's a lot of activist propaganda that wanna push how bad animals have it. And in some cases that is true. But these farmers with a heart of gold get caught up in all that bullshit and don't get the credit for all the hard work and love they put in to their work. (Which applies to most of them) Products coming from farmers such as these everyone should be able to eat with good conscious because you know the animal have/had a good life.

Bless this man and his compassion for life. The world needs more like him

That man cares so much about those cows, omg my heart

I lived in Fukushima Prefecture for two years. MOST of the prefecture is totally okay/perfectly normal to live and travel. It’s only the small coastal area near those towns like Namie that are dangerous. So please know that Fukushima is still super safe to go to!

2:17 what I look like every evening watching RU-vid for hours on end after eating a 4-person pizza by myself

Bless that man that stayed at his cows side instead of running and abandoned them perfect example of a respectable man

I remember when this happened. A lot of videos of it on RU-vid but the most unreal one was when you saw the concrete on the ground literally break up and start rocking back and forth. It didn't look real, friggin crazy.

When he shows the radiation numbers, to put this in context: it's measuring 1.425 µSv/hour and the average background amount is -1mSv/year- (corrected) ~3.5 mSv/year. At this spot you'd get your "safe" annual dose in -29 days- a bit over 3 months. As he says, this isn't a safe place. It's not just about the cows though, he's getting blasted by radiation himself. Making his farm safe would require using bulldozers to remove a huge chunk of irradiated soil and shipping it somewhere else for storage and eventual disposal. It's very difficult as you can imagine, but massive areas have already seen significant improvements; it just takes a while and costs a lot. As long as he continues to live on land that hasn't been scraped clean, he's putting himself at risk (don't think I mean any judgment by this by the way).

This deserves to be shared alot what a hero that guy is

That dairy farmer is amazing. What a tough yet gentle man.

21,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town.

wasn't even thinking about how terrible this was for the local animals.

00:20 this dude was living in an action movie. Hope they're okay

This man is the definition is selflessness. Is there a way to help him and his cows?

0:21 That black car was quick with it. My dumbass would’ve panicked and died

This is a very wise man and its heartbreaking to see on how many levels a nuclear disaster effects so many lives. I wish the best to everyone effected.

The farmer is a very good man. May God bless him and heal the land and animals.

Great to see this dude's still doing well!

Amazing work Vice.

Gosh I can't imagine the horror of seeing dead/dying animals and them producing infected animals. This is 💔😢 I hope the former is getting help

Heart breaking, still and always.

This man is an angel on earth. He loves his cows💕

This is so heartbreaking

Can't believe it's been 10 years. The images are so sad

March 15,2011, I just got back home from an elementary school field trip and saw it on the tv where my mother was watching about it...i could still remember the floodwaters move so fast. Force of Nature. Now Im 20 and I guess those 10 years following 2011 were a huge wave of experiences

Vice has been putting out quality stuff. I like that mostly they send reporters who understand and speak the culture.

I don't have words to express my emotions. Am just sorry for what happened 🙏🙏🙏.#hope

So so satisfying seeing that car barely escaping at the last second 0:22

great reporting, not enough attention is given to these unfortunate folks.

The saddest like for this video for its topic. 😢

The school teachers and principal and the farmer are all Hero's. They saved lives.

If I faced that situation. I would have done the same thing. He is a good man to take care of them.

The shot of the dead cows at 3:14 is pretty startling.

I remember the day it happened. I was in geography when the rest of the world got the news and the teacher stoped the class and told us what had happened.

I'm pretty sure Japan's worst nuclear disasters were in '45...

Wow I have so much respect for this guy. God bless him truly.

I mean just don't locate nuclear power plants near seismically active areas on the coastline. Advocating for no nuclear power completely is simply backwards. Also the earthquake didn't screw the power plant, the tsunami that came after did. Shouldn't be putting nuclear power plants on the coastline, no floodwall or levy will protect a powerplant adequately.

Interesting info. The concrete was close to liquid due to the energy. Crazy.

Haunting. God bless Fukushima 🙏

As one of the first us first aid responders , station in Iwakuni Japan as a firefighter the amount of destruction factor with hazmat was surreal I got some our right disturbing picture 📷

Do a report on the isotopes leaking into the National Park and bay 15 minutes south of Miami Beach... into the ocean and water supply... no, really..

*clicks on vice news* *sees all subtitles* *clicks out*

At least there is still good news coverage from vice.

Good video. Keep it up.

"Japan's worst Nuclear disaster", wait its not about the two nuclear bombs?

0:22 nice save

I have looked everywhere for updates on the workers at the nucleus plant to no avail. My friend who lives in France has access to many of those updates. Here it is censored. Why?

Moon Over Marin, by The Dead Kennedy's comes to mind.... Saw mass debris coming ashore a couple years later along the California/Oregon border, bunch of dead stuff washing up, too.

I Rmb it was indeed 10 Years ago, but still looks like today! Time is indeed running very fast.

For foreign languages it would be better if you could add subtitles in bigger text. The text is too small to read.

Such kindness ❤️

Wait is this a reupload?

I just watched this on vice Asia

The radiation isn't that bad actually. You probably get higher exposure on an airplane, although I wouldn't want to live there at double background radiation for years.

The current court proceedings are rather interesting, first they say TEPCO management are not criminally negligent, because they could not foresee such a catastrophe happening. Which is a completely demented argument. The entire history of the shore and it being hit with Tsunamis and the fishermen verbal tradition telling of how to avoid the wave, recorded history and the fact that the plant generators were literally in a basement with out any tsunami hardening or even a proper egress drainage for flooding rain water, means this ruling is completely egregious and an outrage. Not to mention both General Electric and IAEA had recommended the plant generators be hardened against a tsunami and additional redudancy fascilities be built, several times over a decade. Nuclear regulatory officials and company top management proceeded to "evaluate the recommendation in committee" for over a decade doing nothing. So, this is an accident caused by corruption more than anything. Still, I can't really stand the plants former nuclear safety officers interviews where he sits sniffling that "nuclear power was supposed to be safe". Yes, when in hands of a person with even an ounce of common sense, it usually is. You don't get to blame the nuclear industry or sniffle over this. At the end of the day, the puck stops at your door step. And, either you were incompetent to the point of hiring you was criminal or you didn't have the balls to do what you knew needed to be done. And take this lollygagging of the emergency generators being hardened against natural disasters AND like in any modern plant, they should have multiple fucking redundancies. An ommission in the original design that caused GE to widely check up on old reactor installations both domestic and foreign that they have at very leat bare minimum preparedness for an accident which may knock out one of the emergency power sources, or even two, out. Appropriate triple-redundancy of two additional hardened emergency generator fascilities would have cost less than a 100k and they had over a decade to make these changes. And for example last resort means of running the pumps with common agricultural tractors mechanical auxiliary device units, there were farms nearby and old tractors don't cost much, would also be a consideration that costs very little to nothing as a last resort option. Having access to such would have prevented the nuclear accident. You're job is to take this kind of thing being avoided for years to the press. And if you don't have the damn balls for it then you quit. You coward. So, despite all this, no-one is criminally culpable. Yet, recently they ruled in civil court that execs are fiscally liable because of, well self-evident fact of the shoreline being in a major tsunami area and the plant emergency generators in a basement with out a drain and a 2008 TEPCO report based on government analysis of risk of a major Tsunami hitting the shore and thus the plant, being a likely disaster within the next decade, they are now responsible for the 80 billion dollars in damages for clean-up, loss of property to people who were forced to evacuate the exclusion zone and families of those who lost lives and those who have life changing injury. The 2019 court decision to rule that no-one was criminal negligence has been appealed and a new trial is set to happen in 2023. It will be interesting if the fascist social order of japan will come to its senses. (Its not a modern society. By any means. And their hatred of women is something I find distatesful in particular. ) Surprisingly, TEPCO Fukishima Dainii NPP survived the tsunami with out any incident. Emergency systems, which were up-to-date, worked as intended.

Reminds me of the Chernobyl miniseries, when they're doing their best to "euthanize" the dogs of the cities. And that one guy said hey if you let a dog suffer I'm going to shoot you in the face. Like this guy. Someone told him to let his cows suffer and he said I'd rather brave the nuclear wasteland. people care about animals and governments need to be aware of that because people will hurt themselves to take care of the animals they love.

i'd be constantly worried about natural disasters if i lived in japan

Not to belittle all the stuff the Japanese government and TEPCO put these people through, but saying 1.4 microsieverts "isn't good" or "This isn't a safe place", is insane. 2.7 microsieverts is the average background radiation at cruising altitude on an airline. 1.4 would barely produce 12 mSv/a which is less than a quarter the 50 mSv/a that is considered an occupational exposure limit (limit to cause no health effects for people working in high radiation environments). To give an idea of how low this is, the average background radiation in Finland is 0.9, and there are other areas of the world that are far more radioactive than this. Fukushima was bad, no doubt, but the earthquake, flood, and evacuation caused almost all the problems. It wasn't a second Chernobyl, the reactor core was never open, while low level contaminated water was released it was like a single atom in the bucket that is the pacific.

Jesus it's only been 10 years. HOW

It amazing officials called recent earthquakes aftershocks from a 2011 earthquake. Im finding it hard to believe this farmer loved his cows so much. I mean is this how he felt on the way to the slaughter house too?? If cows are radioactive I think it is effecting him as well. It doesnt matter he doesnt eat grass like them

There's good humans and then there's Masami Yoshizawa. Everyone on earth can strive to be more like him.

I feel for that farmer and everything he and every other farmer had to go through after the disasters. And maybe I'd feel differently if I were living there when it happened etc. But Nuclear Power is so safe compared to the fossil fuel industry it's not even fair to compare them. Yes when Nuclear plants go sideways, it's really really bad. But that's literally only happened 3 times really. Nuclear Power has gotten safer and safer as well, new reactors either being built now or to be built in the future afaik can't even have a meltdown scenario play out. Zero carbon emissions, clean energy (other than the waste products of course, some of which can be recycled for more fuel) and very safe. But as I said, I might think differently if I lived there and had to go through a nuclear disaster like this or Chernobyl.

this man is a real hero.

Is that really the worst nuclear disaster they’ve had?

Dw documentary on this is way more informative and I reckoned it

0:20 imagine being this individual driving. I wonder if he escaped it, hopefully he did.

2nd worst accident in the history of the world why is anyone living there at all? Thats fucked up

Broke my heart seeing all the cows that have died

I feel so bad for the cows and the farmers! They get my respect.

Awesome documentary but I'll need the @

I can't keep up with the translation text

Nuclear energy doesn't seem feasible for an ongoing changing Earth . One earthquake can do this....what if this happened to the other nuclear rich countries also....

Japan knows all too well the power of nuclear capabilities.

しょがない it is..😢😢

And that's why I don't live beside the ocean.

This isn’t shown in the animes :(

i still don`t get it,which one caused the most damage?!tsunami or the explosion?

These Japanese dairy farmers are really something else. Even when raising and killing livestocks is their very trade, they still have enough hearts to treat them on the same level as we treat pets. Comparing to a bunch of pansies in US trying to 'dehumanizing' livestocks further, even though when they aren't humane in the first place. Citing 'livestocks are not animals' or 'psychological trauma' and whatnot, real pathetic if you ask me.

I think they know you broke all limits to try help them, its in there spirit

Where is Foo - Kiszh - ma?? Sounds like the city Fukushima... in Japan.

130,000 ppl less would also be appealing to me to stay seeing is how ppl arent top on my list.

2:18 Me when im high and drunk at the same time🤤🤤🤤😂😂😂😂🐄🐄

Japan released all of the nuclear waste into the ocean and millions of fish died .

I would consider him a hero. One of the few who has tried