Au cœur de Fukushima
Kazuto Tatsuta is a Japanese manga artist. By 2012, he lived in Tokyo, where he found difficulties earning a living through his drawing work. He decided to go to Fukushima to work on the dismantling of the nuclear plant, that was victim of a violent explosion after a tsunami hit the Japanese coast in March 2011. From this experience, he made a drawn reportage describing in great detail the lives and working conditions of the workers, that were exposed to large doses of radioactivity.
Kazuto Tatsuta is a pen name, because the author wants to remain anonymous. Therefore, he gives no information on his previous activities. Tatsuta submitted his story to a contest held by Morning magazine. He won one million yen and the publication of his work. Released in Japan in 2014, the manga is published in France by Kana in 2016, five years after the disaster.
Au cœur de Fukushima