Life in Japan's Evacuation Centers

Life in Japan's Evacuation Centers <br />Evacuees struggle to create a sense of normalcy after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and nuclear crisis
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Temporary Home
On March 27, 2011, an evacuation center in Kesennuma, Miyagi prefecture is full of locals who lost their homes in the earthquake and tsunami, their numbers swelled by others escaping the radiation from the stricken nuclear power plant in Fukushima. With evacuees packed so closely together, privacy is almost non-existent.

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