Jeering at soccer games is as expected as silence at opera performances.
But derisive chants from opposing fans towards Eiji Kawashima at a Belgian soccer match over the weekend reached a low for the goalkeeper, a regular in Japan’s national team, when a group began bellowing “Kawashima, Fukushima!”
Continue reading at Japanese Goalie Shaken by Fukushima Chants
A nuclear power plant in Byron, Illinois. Taken by photographer Joseph Pobereskin (http://pobereskin.com).
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