Two and a half years on from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, thousands of people who lost their homes or jobs are still trying to make new lives for themselves.

I met a former asparagus grower, and a young man who used to be a recluse or 'hikikomori', until the disaster forced him from his home. 

Both are being trained at a new data centre based in the town of Aizumisato, where many evacuees from the exclusion zone have been given temporary homes.
(From minute 34)

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Inside my report (36:23). "When Gianni Rigoni Stern first saw the landscape around Srebrenica in Bosnia, it reminded him of home - the Asiago plateau in north east Italy. But in Bosnia, the effects of the devastating war of the early 1990s were still visible, and local villagers had never recovered. Gianni had an idea: give them cows! In Wednesday's programme (22 January), you can hear about the success of his project, and how 137 cows from Gianni's home region are helping their new owners rebuild their lives."

The "Menstruation" Man

My new radio feature: from minute 37. 
Fishing under the flyover! Cesare Bergamini tells us in Monday's Outlook how he's spent forty years catching eels on the River Tiber, right under the Rome ringroad. Holding the eel is his brother Alfredo. (photos credit Daniela Sala)

Music Saved Me From The Killing Fields

Journalist. Areas of interest: Japan, Italy, investigations. Co-founder of IRPI (Investigative Reporting Project Italy) and of Radio Bullets.

Alessia Cerantola