Activist and farmer Tomoyo Tamayama was already an expert in the ways radiation exposure can disrupt communities when earthquakes shook Japan’s Pacific coast in 2011.
The quakes and associated tsunami irreversibly damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant, causing a series of explosions and the largest nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown in the Soviet Union. Radiation from Fukushima was later detected as far away as California, and more than 150,000 people were evacuated...