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From Our Own Correspondent: Fukushima Ten Years Later

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13/03/2021 GMT

Fukushima Ten Years Later

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Fukushima Ten Years Later

How is Japan managing the cleanup after the disaster? Plus: Nigeria, Mozambique and Malta

After an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown, how well has Japan cleaned up? Plus: Nigeria's school abductions; insurgency in Mozambique; the roots of the Maltese language

Ten years ago the rest of Japan - and then the rest of the world - watched in horror as a huge earthquake, a destructive tsunami and then a nuclear meltdown ravaged the northeast coast of Honshu. Rupert Wingfield Hayes covered it all - and has been back to Fukushima many times since. He reflects on what the early coverage got right and wrong - and how well Japan has managed the post-disaster cleanup. It's going slowly and costing billions - while many evacuees say they've already made new lives elsewhere. 

Pascale Harter introduces this and other insights, reportage and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers around the world.

Mayeni Jones reports from Nigeria on how the brutal tactic of mass kidnappings from schools seems to be spreading - and asks whether the media and political furor which erupts after each incident might be fuelling more of these hostage-takings in future.

An insurgency has been raging in northern Mozambique for several years now - but few reporters have been there to see what's going on. Andrew Harding was recently in the town of Pemba - now home to tens of thousands of people driven from their homes by the fighting . He explains some of the factors behind the violence and spends some time with foreign security consultants being called in to back up Mozambican government forces.

And Juliet Rix minds her words in Malta - where the Malti language still echoes with the voices of many peoples who've invaded, settled on and fought over the island over the centuries. Arabic, Italian, French and English have all influenced its grammar and vocabulary as great powers rose and fell. And these days? "Manglish" - a piquant mash-up of Malti and English - can flip from one to another  and back again within a single sentence.  

(Image: A couple sit on the remains of the bathtub of their house near Fukushima, 2011. Credit: European Pressphoto Agency//Kimimasa Mayama)

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