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— are enduring just such a divide.
The mayor, Mr. Watanabe, has directed the town to
draw up its own plan to return to its original loc
ation within three to five years by building a new
town on farmland in Okuma’s less contaminated wes
tern edge.
Although Mr. Watanabe won a recent election, his c
hallenger found significant support among resident
s with small children for his plan to relocate to
a different part of Japan. Mitsue Ikeda, one suppo
rter, said she would never go home, especially aft
er a medical exam showed that her 8-year-old son,
Yuma, had ingested cesium.
“It’s too dangerous,” Ms. Ikeda, 47, said. “How ar
e we supposed to live, by wearing face masks all t
he time?”
She, like many other evacuees, berated the governm
ent, saying it was fixated on cleaning up to avoid
paying compensation.
Many older residents, by contrast, said they should
be allowed to return.
“Smoking cigarettes is more dangerous than radiati
on,” said Eiichi Tsukamoto, 70, who worked at the
Daiichi plant for 40 years as a repairman. “We can
make Okuma a model to the world of how to restore
a community after a nuclear accident.”
But even Mr. Kodama, the radiation expert who supp
orts a government cleanup, said such a victory wou
ld be hollow, and short-lived if young people did
not return. He suggested that the government start
rebuilding communities by rebuilding trust eroded
over months of official evasion.
“Saving Fukushima requires not just money and effo
rt, but also faith,” he said. “There is no point i