Canadian leads program on Fukushima for overseas students

A 37-year old Canadian has been welcoming overseas university students to Fukushima Prefecture in hopes of dispelling misconceptions about the area as the nine-year anniversary of the nuclear disaster approaches."I love Fukushima and couldn't accept the awful treatment the prefecture was receiving," William McMichael said of the reason he established the long-running Hope Tourism program which has accepted around 200 university students from eight countries since the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.McMichael, who works at Fukushima Univ…READ FULL ARTICLE