Interviews by foreign media
On February 25, 2015, the press tour group, affiliated with Foreign Press Center Japan, visited Iitate village. It was almost four years after the March 11 tragedy.
On that day, Dir. Muneo Kanno and Pres. Yoichi Tao guided the foreign correspondents in the village and were interviewed. As of mid-April, 2015, it has been reported in these various countries:
Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy
March 12, 2015(video)
Title (tentative translation): Fukushima Four years Later: Children and Factories between Problems and Hopes
Original title: IL REPORTAGE/2. Fukushima 4 anni dopo: bambini e fabbriche tra problemi e speranze () http://video.ilsole24ore.com/SoleOnLine5/Video/Notizie/Asia%20e%20Oceania/PIANETA-GIAPPONE/2015/03/fukushima-reportage-secondo/fukushimareportage2.php
USA Today, USA
March 11, 2015 (article)
Title: 250,000 Japanese still displaced 4 years after quake
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/09/japan-tsunami-radiation-fourth-anniversary-fukushima/24254887/
MediaCorp/Channel NewsAsia, Singapore
Aired on March 11, 2015
Title: Japan marks 4th anniversary of quake-tsunami disaster
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video/japan-marks-4th/1709164.html
Aired on March 11, 2015
Title: Residents of Iitate Village rebuild their lives after Fukushima disaster
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video/residents-of-iitate/1703658.html
Swiss Radio and TV, Switzerland
Aired on March 11, 2015
Title (tentatively translation): Fukushima; four years thereafter
Original title: Fukushima: vier Jahre danach
http://www.srf.ch/play/tv/tagesschau/video/fukushima-vier-jahre-danach?id=0b294171-05b4-4c43-8db9-e4701d07c15d
Le Monde. Fr, France
March 10, 2015 (article)
Title (tentative translation): The wretched earth
Original Title: Les damnés de la terre
http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2015/03/10/les-damnes-de-la-terre_4590340_3232.html#AXtL5bzZw8FpuVbb.99
新華社 Xinhua News Agency, China
March 10, 2015 (article)
Title (tentative translation): Four years after the disaster, Fukushima decontamination effect doubtful
Original title: 灾后4年,日本福岛除污效果存疑
http://www.apdnews.com/asia/neasia/2015/0310/172360.shtml
EPA, European Pressphoto Agency, Germany
March 10, 2015 (photos)
Rebuilding Fukushima Japan – Four years after the nuclear accident
Agencia EFE, S.A., Spain
March 6, 2015 (video)
Title (tentative translation): Iitate, a ghost town by radiation from Fukushima
Original title: Iitate, un pueblo fantasma por la radiación de Fukushima
http://prodigy.msn.com/es-mx/video/noticias/iitate-un-pueblo-fantasma-por-la-radiaci%C3%B3n-de-fukushima/vi-AA9sLrQ
March 6, 2015 (article)
Title (tentative translation): Iitate, a paradise turned into ghost town by radiation, Fukushima
Original title: Iitate, un paraíso convertido en pueblo fantasma por la radiación de http://www.efeverde.com/noticias/iitate-pueblo-fantasma-radiacion-fukushima/
경향신문 Kyunghyang Shinmun, Korea
March 4, 2015(article)
Title (tentative translation):four years since the great east Japan earthquake; piles of black bags from decontamination remain in the village left by villagers
Original title: [동일본 대지진 4년] 4년째 방사능 오염토 제거… 주민 떠난 곳 ‘검은 포대’ 산더미
http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201503032157145
동아일보 THE DONG-A Ilbo, Korea
March 4, 2015 (article)
Title (tentative translation): A million of plastic bags occupy farmland after the villagers left
중앙일보JoongAng Ilbo, Korea
March 3, 2015 (video)
Title (tentative translation): Fukushima, tragic place but wing-stroking for revitalization
Original title: [후쿠시마 4주년] “일터 지킨다”…’비운의 땅’ 재기의 날갯짓
[후쿠시마 4주년] ‘방사능 공포’ 여전…고향집 버리는 사람
[후쿠시마 4주년] 갑상선암 환자 늘었는데…일본 정부, 은폐?
[후쿠시마 4주년] “일터 지킨다”…’비운의 땅’ 재기의 날갯짓
March 4, 2015 (morning paper article)
Filled with packed radiation contaminated soils, resident peple say “we cannot return” (1)
Filled with packed radiation contaminated soils, resident peple say “we cannot return” (2)
聯合報 United Daily News, Taiwan
March 1, 2015 (article and video)
Title (tentative translation): Fukushima nuclear disaster after four years; village and forests occupied by piles of black bags are still off-limits
Original title: 福島核災4年…黑袋山占據村落 森林仍是禁地
http://udn.com/news/story/7837/731000
March 1, 2015 (article and video)
Title (tentative translation): living in temporary housing; we don’t want to leave Fukushima
https://video.udn.com/news/282584