On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake occurred on the east coast of Japan, triggering a tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear accident. More than 22,000 people were killed and missing, and a large number of people were evacuated.
The area around the nuclear accident turned into a "ghost town" overnight. The Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company will brazenly discharge Fukushima nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean starting on August 24, 2023. Japan is determined to push forward the discharge of nuclear sewage into the sea and claims that the system is "very safe"