Three Years After Fukushima, Children's Lives Still Confined Indoors

A boy plays with a paper plane in the corridor of a kindergarten in Koriyama.

Children play in an indoor sand box.

Children play dodgeball at their kindergarten.

Four-year-old Iori Hiyama rides a tricycle at an indoor playground.

A girl stands by the door of a teacher's staff room.

Children play in an indoor sand box.

A girl runs past a Geiger counter as she arrives at school.

A girl wears a mask as she rides a school bus.

Two-year-old Sakuya Zui plays at an indoor playground.

Two-year-old Nao Watanabe plays in a ball pit.

A doctor conducts a thyroid examination on a five-year-old girl as her older brother and a nurse take care of her at a clinic in a temporary housing complex in Nihonmatsu.

Seven-year-old Masyoshi Kaneta plays video games at home in Koriyama.

A man passes by a Geiger counter during radiation decontamination work at a park in Koriyama.