The Voice of FUKUSHIMA: A Cry from the Heart – Ground Zero 03: Home but Home no More
Coming home from a “holiday” they never wanted to take Yogan Baum and his wife have to confront a terror you can’t smell, can’t hear, can’t see. Life has its demands however and people near Fukushima Daiichi either leave or try to cope with their fear. Extraordinary efforts are made to somehow go back.
Eyewitness of Fukushima 3/11 disaster
Yogan Baum
What brought him here? Well, the train, mainly. In 1984, Yogan Baum travelled from Moscow to Beijing on the Moscow–Peking Express. He crossed China, continued to Hong Kong and then flew on to the Philippines. From there, his journey eventually brought him to Japan.
At Narita Airport, a Japanese immigration officer stamped his passport: “Welcome to Japan!”
The Voice of FUKUSHIMA Trilogy
The Voice of FUKUSHIMA
A Cry from the Heart
Ground Zero 01: Earthquake
The Voice of FUKUSHIMA
A Cry from the Heart
Ground Zero 02: Tsunami and Worse
The Voice of FUKUSHIMA
A Cry from the Heart
Ground Zero 03: Home but Home no More
The Voice of FUKUSHIMA – A Cry from the Heart Ground Zero 01: Earthquake
Yogan Baum, no longer a stranger in his adopted country, lived through the triple catastrophe that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. The place is Yotsukura, Fukushima — a sleepy little fishing village just twenty miles from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. He had built a home and a life with his family there. Then the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku megaquake struck.
GET YOUR FREE BOOK COPY
The personal story kept me reading, more than could a worthy text on the “hubris” of atomic power …
Richard Lung
Author of He’s a Good Dog
Your book sounds riveting. All the best with it. rlc
R. L. Cederberg
Author of Between the Cracksxtra Time
You have a nice readable writing style … keep writing!
M. J. Hollingshead
Author of Still Remembering Daddy