Thursday, 26 March 2020

Now Postponed, The Olympic Torch Relay Was To Bring Hope To Ravaged Fukushima

Takayuki Ueno was set to be a runner in the now postponed Olympic torch relay in Fukushima, Japan. Here he stands in the field where he is growing a flower maze for children to play in Minamisoma, Japan. The field was flooded by the 2011 tsunami and killed Ueno

The torch relay was supposed to start on Thursday in the Japanese prefecture hit hard by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. A torch runner recalls the disaster that took his family.

(Image credit: Claire Harbage/NPR)



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