15 years after Fukushima meltdown, an innkeeper makes radiation surveys to revitalize her hometown
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Tomoko Kobayashi looks at a color-coded map of radiation levels created by local residents during an interview near a radiation monitoring lab in Odaka, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)Tomoko Kobayashi's Futabaya Ryokan at dawn in Odaka, Fukushima Prefecture, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)Tomoko Kobayashi holds a photograph taken by her late husband showing her with relatives outside their inn in the summer of 2011, when they briefly returned after evacuating following the March 11, 2011 disaster, in Odaka, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)Tomoko Kobayashi serves miso soup during breakfast service at Futabaya Ryokan in Odaka, Fukushima Prefecture, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)A worker walks past the Unit 4 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
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Tomoko Kobayashi looks at a color-coded map of radiation levels created by local residents during an interview near a radiation monitoring lab in Odaka, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)