10 Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Two Men Are Still Living There Taking Care of Everyone’s Pets

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When clouds of radiation began to flow through the air around the Fukushima nuclear plant, 160,000 residents were told to just cut and run.

However, it appears that only 159,998 residents listened. The other two, Naoto Matsumura and Sakae Kato, stayed. Evidently, the city possessed not one, but two men whose love for animals was broken through their innate sense of self-preservation; men who would renounce everything instead of condemning other beings to hunger.

Living within the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around the damaged reactor, the two unrelated men live alone while caring for dozens of stray animals left behind when the evacuation order was given.

Reports Reuters Y DW They claim 57-year-old Kato has 41 cats living with him in his home in the mountains, along with a stray dog he adopted named Pochi. Kato says that he will stay with his cats and make sure they are comfortable for their entire lives.

Kato’s generosity is not limited to his own animals, and he has dedicated himself to feeding local wild boars, considered pests by the government.

Guardian and Champion

Matsumura left the city at first, but returned shortly after for his own animals. Once he returned, the now 55-year-old realized that everyone else’s pets and livestock were still there, so he began caring for a wide community of animals, including pigs, cats, dogs, ponies, ostriches. and cows.

When he was evacuated for the first time, some members of his family outside the exclusion zone told him that he could not stay with them due to the risk of contamination. The refugee camps outside the area were filling up fast, and Matsumura felt that everything was too complicated.

GNN reported in 2015 who returned to the exclusion zone and found that the local domestic dogs had not eaten in several days. After it became clear that no one would return to the neighborhood, he went unleashing dogs from the trees, letting the cows out of their stables, and feeding whatever needed them, earning him the nickname ‘Fukushima Animal Guardian’ .

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According to scientists from JAXA, the Japanese national space agency, Matsumura is also the “champion”, the the most irradiated man in the country. Despite this, he has been told that it will probably be 30 to 40 years before radiation begins to ruin his biology, a timeline that will see him “probably dead by then”.

Until that day, it finances the feeding of the animals through local donations and keeps people up to date. with news on your blog–Published through the use of solar energy– although it lives without constant electricity or running water.

Everything Kato and Matsumura are doing is technically illegal, and the police have ordered both of them to leave the area. However, they apparently couldn’t be less upset by the government’s demands, and they both plan to stay there with their animals no matter what.

(CLOCK a local news report …)