prefecture's

Nowhere can this be felt more than in the prefecture's agricultural industry, but farmers are fighting back.

Fukushima Farmers Worry About Region's Brand 2011

Damage control Ever since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant began throwing radioactive particles into the surrounding environment, produce from the prefecture's farmers has disappeared from store shelves and some countries have banned imports of it.

Fukushima Farmers Worry About Region's Brand 2011

Despite the domestic disaster, polls show a strong lead for the incumbent, who has painted himself as a steady hand who can pull Aomori prefecture's struggling economy out of its post-quake slump.

Japan Poll Hinges on Nuclear Policy Yuka Hayashi 2011

Damage control Ever since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant began throwing radioactive particles into the surrounding environment, produce from the prefecture's farmers has disappeared from store shelves and some countries have banned imports of it.

Fukushima Farmers Worry About Region's Brand 2011

He asked the prefecture's governor, Yuhei Sato, to help win the understanding of local communities, according to Kyodo news agency.

Japan declares no-go zone near Fukushima plant 2011

They tend toward geometrical abstraction: agricultural land divided into rectangular fields, the biomorphic shapes of the links on a golf course, rafts of lumber attached together in floating strings, neat arrays of industrial buildings, and the compressed urbanization of the prefecture's capital city, also called Shizuoka.

Island Life and the Wild William Meyers 2011

The nuclear industry is expected to provide 13% of the prefecture's total tax revenue during the current fiscal year, in addition to generous subsidies that nuclear-hosting communities receive from the central government.

Japan Poll Hinges on Nuclear Policy Yuka Hayashi 2011

Giving some hope for the challenger Mr. Yamauchi, is the eroding allegiance to the governor among large, organized voting blocs that have traditionally accepted the prefecture's nuclear push.

Japan Poll Hinges on Nuclear Policy Yuka Hayashi 2011

"We have made up our mind to co-exist with nuclear-power plants," says Shigenori Sasatake, the nuclear-policy chief in Higashidori, a village of 8,000, which hosts the prefecture's only nuclear reactor, and has another under construction.

Japan Poll Hinges on Nuclear Policy Yuka Hayashi 2011

Nowhere can this be felt more than in the prefecture's agricultural industry, but farmers are fighting back.

Fukushima Farmers Worry About Region's Brand 2011