Fukushima， Happy Island Again

"Fukushima", the place which is being spoiled by radioactivity of broken nuclear reactors, seems to have become one of the most well-known districts in Japan like Hiroshima and Nagasaki in opprobrious sense. "Fukushima" seems to have become synonymous with nuclear accident.
"Fuku" means "happy". "Shima" is an island. So "Fuku-shima" is a "Happy Island" although its history and its current status have not been so happy.
The district, in which four broken nuclear reactors are emitting radioactive substances continuously, had been a very poor underpopulated area until Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) decided to build a nuclear power station there. TEPCO has created a very stable local employment and paid enough money to change this town as rich as an urban area in exchange for its residents' risk. It might have been a rich town worth named "happy island" as long as the reactors were safely controlled.
People who once had a deal with the devil might be doomed to go to hell. However it's too early to call it fate. Now more than a million of people are living peacefully in Hiroshima, 0.4 million in Nagasaki although scientists believed that no creature would be able to live there including the strongest plants within decades when these cities were destroyed and polluted by atomic bombs.
I believe someday refugees will go back to their town to live again there.
I'm sure we can do it.

from Tokyo