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Missions Fukushima – A Personal Account. (Cont’d from April)

You have never gone back to Okuma? Yes, a year later we received permission to go back for two hours: my wife refused to go , for fear of radiation effects…. and also refused to let me bring back her clothes for fear of their being contaminated. So I went on my own, in a […]

A Meeting with a Victim of Fukushima

This account is based on three meetings with Mr Yoshida. I got to know him in tragic circumstances: a non-Christian, he had come to ask me if I could celebrate a funeral “according to Christian rites” for his wife, a Filipina and Catholic, who had died aged 43, on 30th June, 2013. For a start, […]