Last Updated: 3:42 AM, April 13, 2011
Posted: 2:35 AM, April 13, 2011
Welcome to the Japanese desert. The town near Japan's nuclear catastrophe has become a postapocalyptic moonscape of abandoned buildings, farmerless fields and vacant streets where an orphaned pet wanders looking for long-departed masters.
Photos of Futaba, a town less than two miles from the crippled Fukushima reactor complex, showed homes with clothing still hanging in closets because the evacuated residents didn't have time to pack.
A lonely dog was spotted wandering about the hamlet that held more than 7,400 people a month ago.
His only other apparent companions included chickens in an abandoned henhouse and forlorn cows in a nearby field. Also within the "exclusion zone" -- the area around the nuclear plant that has been evacuated -- is a haunting nursery filled with dying flowers...continue reading
ABANDONED: A dog wanders the streets of Futaba, a town of 7,400 emptied so fast that inhabitants left their laundry hanging.
ABANDONED: A dog wanders the streets of Futaba, a town of 7,400 emptied so fast that inhabitants left their laundry hanging.
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