Yotsukura municipal beach in Iwaki, about 40 kilometers south of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, opened this summer for the first time since the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years.
Close to 14,000 people visited the beach in summer 2013, a drop from 101,000 visitors in 2010 before the disaster, according to the Iwaki city government office.
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xpurinx
Lookie here and then tell me if you'd visit the beach there or any coastal area in close proximity: http://jciv.iidj.net/map/
Francis Urquhart
100 years later it's going to be a beautiful beach.
Yeah - glow in the dark!
JoeBigs
Raise your hands if you want to swim in toxic waste?
I will not be visiting Fukushima area for a long long while........
But if Xi Jinping wants to take a deep swim in those waters, please by all means swim as long as you wish........
onedragon
100 years later it's going to be a beautiful beach.
girl_in_tokyo
Want to bet none or very few of those 14,000 swam in the water?
nath
Sad, but I wouldn't touch that prefecture and anything that comes out of it with a 100 mile pole.
chucky3176
14,000 stupid people.
And I seen the picture of those children who were playing in that water... made me sick with anger and disgust at their parents who trust their government, and the government that lies to them.
Tessa
Frankly I'm amazed that as many as 14,000 people actually visited at all.
jforce
Is this a joke? Why anyone would go near any beach in that area is beyond me. Numbers down... Good.
Francis Urquhart
That is strange! I can't imagine why there should have been a steep fall in visitors. If anyone has any theories, feel free to post them here.