Just south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant lies the town of Tomioka, where residents were ordered to evacuate following the triple meltdown in 2011. Those orders have now ...

In 1872, the Meiji government established the Tomioka Silk Mill in Gunma Prefecture. Paul Brunat, a French national, was hired to create a state-of-the-art silk reeling mill to transition the ...