Fukushima’s saki brewers look to Tokyo Olympics to lift sales
But with the Games less than five months away, many spectators, and some Olympic committees, have expressed concern about the food from Fukushima
13 March 2020 - 15:04
Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan — The earth in Fukushima still trembled when Yoshihiro Miyamori drove in the dark towards his sake brewery. When he got back after midnight, he found smashed sake bottles and a crack in the wall of the building. It was March 11 2011.
Miyamori was on his way to visit other sake-makers along Japan's northeastern coast that day, and barely escaped the tsunami unleashed by a huge earthquake that razed towns and killed thousands, setting off nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant nearby...
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