Contaminated Landscape in Tsushima

Radiation dose rate: 6.0 microsievert per hour / 75 times above normal. The normal rate before the Fukushima nuclear disaster was 0.08 microsieverts an hour.

Weeds creep unchecked towards vending machines at an abandoned filling station in Tsushima. Like most houses, farms, and businesses in the area it is beginning to slide into disrepair, as residents who evacuated in order to escape radiation have not yet been able to return.