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http://www.boredpanda.com/fukushima-radioactive-disaster-abandoned-animal-guardian-naoto-matsumura/
The story of a Japanese man that lives in the Fukushima 12.5mile exclusion zone. He started four years ago. He takes care of the
animals left behind, and for many of the animals he is the only source of food.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,566 posts)K&R!
840high
(17,196 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Poked around and here is the only update I can find
https://nathalieandkyoko.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/three-npos-help-matsumura-take-action-for-the-fukushima-cows/
A modern day St Francis
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Please click the yellow button on the left side of the top page. It is in French.
Unfortunately, it is only in French, and it is a little difficult to navigate. There is an English translation that is toward the bottom of the home page (before you click the yellow button)
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)I saw footage of cows locked up and left behind. Half of them already dead, the rest clearly in distress. Animals always take the brunt of tragedies of this magnitude.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)His group is called "Kibou no Bokujo" or "Farm of Hope" and he is on the other side of the reactors.
http://ameblo.jp/kibouno-bokujyou/
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)It's a worthy cause to support. I am moved to donate whatever I can spare.