It's two pictures of (the same) four buildings, not one picture of eight buildings. They're showing the before and after at the same time on the TV. The twin disasters claimed more than 19,000 lives, and thousands of victims are still unaccounted for. Japan Tsunami 2011: Fukushima Disaster Before And After Images Show Just How Far Country Has Come. Image: MIXA/Getty Images Fukushima, the capitol of the prefecture of the same name, is a lively city and important transportation hub … It's TWO pictures they're showing on the screen, not one. ... led to a meltdown at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima and cost more than $300 billion in damage. The BEFORE is at top, and the AFTER is at bottom from a somewhat different angle. The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture is seen in these aerial images taken on February 26, 2012, and before the disaster in … BEFORE AND AFTER: Unreal Pictures From The Japan Tsunami . Japan tsunami pictures: before and after In this first of three Big Picture posts on the anniversary of the Japan earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster, we have a series of paired "then and now" pictures, with the first image taken recently paired with a picture from the same vantage point taken during or in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. (Related photos: "The Nuclear Cleanup Struggle at Fukushima.") The Calm Before the Tsunami In the first of a series of newly released pictures showing a Japanese shoreline before and during the recent tsunami, a beach in Fukushima … Below are 10 before-and-after images, taken in 2011 and in 2016, of the areas affected by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the resulting tsunami, and the power plant accident. One photographer had the opportunity to get a rare look inside the abandoned radioactive towns of Fukushima, Japan four years after two natural disasters triggered a … Fukushima before the earthquake. 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