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Shuji Akagi had started using Twitter prior to the Great East Japan Earthquake, murmuring now and then, but when the disaster struck, the reactor meltdown that is, he tweeted more and more, and the tweeted photographs rose gradually on his account @akagishuji.

Although the effects of the radiation on Fukushima-City and its surroundings, approximately 60 kilometres from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plants, were not as bad as the most gravely impacted areas, Akagi responded keenly to various changes and matters he had never experienced before by turning his camera on them. As if on a mission to record everything, he relentlessly and carefully took photographs, some of which he would post on twitter with his comments.