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Google Releases Street View Images From Fukushima Ghost Town

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-fallout-map dept.

mdsolar writes in with news that Goolge has released Street View pictures from inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima disaster. "Google Inc. (GOOG) today released images taken by its Street View service from the town of Namie, Japan, inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011. Google, operator of the world's biggest Web search engine, entered Namie this month at the invitation of the town's mayor, Tamotsu Baba, and produced the 360-degree imagery for the Google Maps and Google Earth services, it said in an e-mailed statement. All of Namie's 21,000 residents were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the town, causing the world's worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. Baba asked Mountain View, California-based Google to map the town to create a permanent record of its state two years after the evacuation, he said in a Google blog post."

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  1. lolwut by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google releases images, but we're not going to show them to you. Or load the page's CSS.

    1. Re:lolwut by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      But we are going to remind you of their ticker symbol, because everyone comes to Slashdot for investment advice.

  2. Were are the super-mutants ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like the graphics but the game play can use more work.

  3. Re:Unmanned car ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's because, after a nuclear incident, the ant was 5 feet tall and 15 feet long.

  4. Re:Direct link by SternisheFan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't make fun of the American kid. At least he realized that WW2 happened in the past.

    You have a good point about our education system today. I recently saw a History Channel show about a veteran crewman from the Enola Gay bomber who gave speeches of his experience to American schoolkids. He said in one high school one student thanked him for his service in "World War Eleven" (WWII).