Mieko Okubo holds a portrait of her father-in-law Fumio Okuboi in the evacuated town of Iitate in Fukushima prefecture in Japan.
Photo gallery: What’s left of Fukushima? http://reut.rs/18xxQQN
Mieko’s father Fumio, a 102 year old farmer, hanged himself in the house where he lived all his life after authorities ordered him to leave the area following the nuclear disaster at the tsunami-crippled Daiichi power plant. She said Fumio committed suicide because he just could not stand to end his life somewhere else.
A total of 160,000 people were ordered to leave their homes around Daiichi after the government announced the evacuation following the nuclear disaster in March 2011.
Photos by Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj. Read his photographer’s blog:http://reut.rs/1fLxhJu
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