Ichi-f

A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

Kazuto Tatsuta

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English

Kodansha Comics
07 March 2017

Graphic novels: Manga

The strongest earthquake in Japanese history hit the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, and the resulting tsunami killed over 15,000 people. But, for residents of Fukushima Prefecture, the nightmare was just beginning. The world watched as the Fukushima Dai-ichi (Fukushima #1, or 1-F) nuclear plant, its safety equipment drowned by the tsunami, experienced a slow and catastrophic meltdown. Over the following years, the cleanup effort would be fraught with controversy, setbacks, and, most of all, danger for the workers who had to step inside the stricken plant, still bathed in radiation. One of those workers tells his story in Ichi-F.

On March 11, 2011, Japan suffered the largest earthquake in its modern history. The 9.0-magnitude quake threw up a devastating tsunami that wiped away entire towns, and caused, in the months afterward, three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Altogether, it was the costliest natural disaster in human history.

This is not the story of that disaster.

This is the story of a man who took a job. Kazuto Tatsuta was an amateur artist who signed onto the dangerous task of cleaning up the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, which the workers came to call ""Ichi-F."" This is the story of that challenging work, of the trials faced by the local citizens, and of the unique camaraderie that built up between the mostly blue-collar workers who had to face the devious and invisible threat of radiation on a daily basis. After six months, Tatsuta's body had absorbed the maximum annual dose of radiation allowed by regulations, and he was forced to take a break from the work crew, giving him the time to create this unprecedented, unauthorized, award-winning view of daily life at Fukushima Daiichi.

""I drew this manga because I wanted people to see what day-to-day life at the nuclear power plant is like. Because I believe that's essential to the future of our country.""

-Kazuto Tatsuta

By: Kazuto Tatsuta
Imprint: Kodansha Comics
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781632363558
ISBN 10: 1632363550
Pages: 1
Publication Date: 07 March 2017
Recommended Age: From 16 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

After participating in the Fukushima nuclear cleanup effort for six months in 2012, before being forced to quit due to radiation exposure, Kazuto Tatsuta decided to draw a graphic memoir about his experiences to give the public a look inside the secretive effort. Ichi-F started as a short amateur manga, which was extended into a longer work after winning the Morning Manga Open Award. It is his professional manga debut.

Reviews for Ichi-f: A Worker's Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

This is a very human look at a sensationalized issue, and Tatsuta's approach is level headed and informative without being dry. -Otaku USA An emotional and personal work... that should have appeal beyond the normal manga reader crowd. -Anime News Network A tremendous amount of work from the translator Stephen Paul and others at Kodansha has gone into Ichi-F in an effort to make the manga as accurate and as widely accessible as possible... What in many ways started out as just a job ends with Tatsuta caring deeply about and for his colleagues at the plant, the locals and residents of Fukushima, and the area itself... an individual perspective critical to the larger context. -Experiments in Manga