Art project encourages evacuees of nuclear disaster-hit Fukushima town

Murals depicting former residents of a town left deserted by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster have been painted on buildings on its main streets in an effort to maintain morale among evacuees ahead of what is hoped will be their eventual return.Two murals of boy who was 2 at the time of the disaster were unveiled Sunday in Futaba, which hosted the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. They join several other murals painted since the project was launched earlier this year.The new murals, each about 7 meters in height and 5 meters in length, were painted on the exterior walls of …READ FULL ARTICLE