In the Radiation Zone: Revisiting Minamisoma (part 2 of 3)

Ian and Colin travel back to the city of Minamisoma five months after they filmed a feature documentary there about the children living in the radiation zone 20-30 km from the damaged nuclear power plant in Fukushima.

In Part 2, they visit the local train station, interview people that have recently moved from evacuation centres into temporary housing, and head for the 20 km exclusion zone.

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• Tokyo
• Japan
• earthquake
• tsunami
• Ian Thomas Ash
• radiation
• victims
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• evacuees
• Minamisoma
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• 南相馬市
• Ionizing radiation
• nuclear

[jezzmoto]

Why did you not have your own geiger meter?

[DocumentingIan]

@jezzmoto Thank you for your question. We do use a geiger counter and some people that we meet in Minamisoma also wear one, but we don't always show them while we are filming.

[woola88]

The last 30 seconds at the exclusion zone.... I couldn't help but think what a beautiful place this is with the mountains and the setting sun.

Thanks for sharing.

[DocumentingIan]

@woola88 You are right: this is such a beautiful part of Japan. We can see the beauty of the mountains, of the sun, of the people. It is the invisible threat, the radiation, that we cannot see.

[yeahjesse]

Please post more videos about your future projects--about Japan, or anything. The "to be concluded" line made me realize how much I would miss it.

[DocumentingIan]

@yeahjesse Thank you so much for watching, and I am so honoured that you want to see more of our work! Not to worry, the "to be concluded" is just referring to the current 3-part "Revisiting Minamisoma" that we filmed last month (by the way, part 3 will be up in just a little while). We have already filmed our next update and are about to start editing it. We are going to be filming these people's stories until they recover. We hope you will be watching and thinking of them for just as long.

[yeahjesse]

@DocumentingIan I will.

[DocumentingIan]

@qweqeqeqdsx22222 Thank you for watching! I am glad that you feel that the people being interviewed have an important message that should be heard by the world.

[qweqeqeqdsx22222]

I think its great what you do! And the voice of this old man should reach the whole world or at least people who are not against nuclear power!!!!!!!!!!! Actually its not common that japanese people protest or something, but they did a while ago, and this shows that most of them dont want nuclear power anymore! there ARE different opportunitys for them, even if some people say that they ONLY HAVE the chance to use nuclear power, because they cant anything else!

[DocumentingIan]

@stormko I understand the confusion and will try to offer more context where I can in clips that I put online, while still keeping in mind that clips I put online are only a brief edited portrait and different from the documentaries I make where there is more time to develop the story and provide background for what is happening. I share your concern for how the people who have been so affected by this great tragedy are treated. Thank you for watching and for your honest reaction comments.