Fukushima Couple Take Sentimental Journey Before Their Home Vanishes

OKUMA, JAPAN - APRIL 04: Carp streamers are hoisted in front of the home of Hisatomo Suzuki, on April 4, 2015 in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan. Suzuki, 62, has long dreamed of the day he will look up at them alongside his grandchildren, just as other families do to celebrate the Boys Festival in May. But Suzuki, a former senior official of the Okuma town government, will never be able to do that because his home is only 300 meters from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The house and the Japanese-style garden he has lovingly tended for so many years will soon be razed to make way for an interim storage facility for contaminated soil and other material generated from cleanup operations in Fukushima Prefecture. Up to 22 million cubic meters of waste will be stored for a maximum of 30 years. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)