In the summer of 2014, I was chosen to join four SF State journalism students and one Japanese-language student to go to Fukushima, Japan and report on the recovery efforts still taking place three years after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Powerplant Explosion.
We curated all the stories we documented to create Facing Fukushima: We Are Here, a collection of multimedia stories that sheds light on Fukushima's efforts to rebuild and heal their communities after the disaster. Below are the photos and videos I produced that were included in the project...
"Don't Forget Japan"
This project was in collaboration with Fukushima University's Ambassadors Program, which was created to bring international students to experience Fukushima and learn about how the city managed the physical, financial, and social repercussions of the tsunami and nuclear powerplant explosion. Many of the stories centered around restorative justice. Our focus was getting to know the people of Fukushima: scientists, farmers, students, doctors, public workers, fishermen, entrepreneurs, residents who had lost their homes...all working to rebuild a community after a disaster. To tell their stories.
