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Season 6 Episode 9: Fukushima Monologue II

"What should be cherished? What should be passed on?" After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Matsumura Naoto stayed put in his hometown of Tomioka to look after abandoned animals. A decade later, Matsumura is now battling to revive a rice field in a decontaminated wasteland. As once-treasured farmland is lost to various new forms of development, Matsumura's solitary struggle to carve out a different path to the community's future casts the theme of post-disaster reconstruction in a new light.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

8

Episodes:

171

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

2017

IMDb:

9.0