TOKYO/OKUMA, Japan -- When asked about the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station, which happened 10 years ago on March 11 and covered northern Japan in a cloud of radioactive debris, Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi is fond of gesturing toward a potted plant in the corner of his Tokyo office. Next to it sits a Geiger counter.
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 1. (Photo by Yuki Nakao)
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