For the past eight years, Yumiko Nishimoto, a torchbearer for this summer's Tokyo Olympics, has been planting cherry trees in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima as a symbol of hope as it seeks to recover from the devastation of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.Nishimoto, head of a nonprofit organization, has led efforts to plant 20,000 cherry trees along a 163-kilometer major national road near the Pacific coast, which also passes through towns and villages that are still partly uninhabitable."Many people, including children, have been forced to live far from th…READ FULL ARTICLE
