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Eerie images inside Fukushima’s exclusion zone

Abandoned shops, discarded laundry and traffic lights signalling to empty streets: Eerie images inside Fukushima’s exclusion zone five years after the nuclear disaster  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3686045/Abandoned-shops-discarded-laundry-traffic-lights-signalling-streets-Eerie-images-inside-Fukushima-s-exclusion-zone-five-years-nuclear-disaster.html

• Photographer Keow Wee Loong explored four towns in Fukushima with friends after sneaking in during the night
• The area was evacuated in March 2011 and has been abandoned since then. It’s still cordoned off from the public 
• People who left the area went very quickly. They abandoned their clothes in the dryer and left fully-stocked shelves

By QIN XIE FOR MAILONLINE, 13 July 2016

More than five years after the devastating tsunami and the 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck north-eastern Japan, causing the explosion of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, the Japanese town remains abandoned.

Since April 22, 2011, an area within 20km (12.4miles) radius of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant has been cordoned off from the public and listed as the red exclusion zone.

But now, Malaysian photographer Keow Wee Loong has entered into the exclusion zone to capture these eerie images.

July 13, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual