Google Street View show new images from nuclear evacuation zone

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New images are now available on Google Street View from the 2011 tsunami and earthquake-affected areas in Japan. This is the entrance to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Google are also publishing imagery of new areas within the Fukushima Exclusion Zone, including the abandoned towns Ōkuma and Futaba.

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– We hope that providing this new street-level imagery on Google Maps can make the memories of the disaster relevant and palpable for future generations, says Kei Kawai, Group Product Manager, Street View.

Futaba Machi, Fukushima Prefecture:
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Google Street View visits deserted “Battleship island” from Bond movie Skyfall

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Hashima Island (aka Battleship Island) in Japan was featured in the Bond movie Skyfall as the hideout Dead Island. Now Google Street View came to the deserted and creepy island. The place concist of destroyed post-war buildings – a ghost town where nobody has lived since 1974.

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Mitsubishi Corporation own the island and originally used it for coal mining.

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