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Indigo dyeing helps Fukushima farmers still living in shadow of 2011 nuclear disaster | South China Morning Post

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Kiyoko Mori’s livelihood was washed away on March 11, 2011, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami hit her farm in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture. The disaster caused a meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi power plant, which then spewed massive amounts of radioactive particles which contaminated the soil. U…

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