People flee Japan nuke disaster to faraway Okinawa

 
By YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press | Published: December 23, 2012   

NAHA, Japan — Okinawa is about as far away as one can get from Fukushima without leaving Japan, and that is why Minaho Kubota is here.

Petrified of the radiation spewing from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant that went into multiple meltdowns last year, Kubota grabbed her children, left her skeptical husband and moved to the small southwestern island. More than 1,000 people from the disaster zone have done the same thing.

photo - In this photo released by Minaho Kubota, Kubota chats with her two-year-old son in Naha, Okinawa, Japan. Petrified of the radiation spewing from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant that went into multiple meltdowns last year, Kubota grabbed her children, left her skeptical husband and moved to the small southwestern island. AP photo <strong> - AP photo</strong>
In this photo released by Minaho Kubota, Kubota chats with her two-year-old son in Naha, Okinawa, Japan. Petrified of the radiation spewing from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant that went into multiple meltdowns last year, Kubota grabbed her children, left her skeptical husband and moved to the small southwestern island. AP photo - AP photo

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“I thought I would lose my mind,” Kubota told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “I felt I would have no answer for my children if, after they grew up, they ever asked me, `Mama,...
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