professor koichi nakano, thank you for joining us. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we will be back in a moment. ♪ [music break] "the final view." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are on the road in tokyo, japan. on sunday, we will be headed to astsushi funahashi and kyoto -- we will be headed to hiroshima and kyoto. we are here in japan, the country is about to mark the third anniversary of one of the world's worst atomic disasters. massive 9.0-, a magnitude earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami that struck japanese northeast coast. it left an estimated 19,000 people dead or missing, and forced 160,000 to flee their homes. many have never been able to return. the disasters trickled -- triggered a meltdown at the tokyo electric company, fukushima powerplant's owner. the radiation that spewed from the plant stranded more than 350,000 evacuees. in the years following the fukushima disaster, tens of thousands of japanese have taken to the streets to