Inappropriate signboards

March 10, 2015(

Evacuated Fukushima town to remove ironic nuclear signboards

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150310p2g00m0dm035000c.html

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- The town of Futaba, which has been evacuated since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, decided Monday to remove street signboards propagating the positive aspects of nuclear power.

The signboards in desolated streets carry slogans promoting atomic energy, including one reading, "Nuclear power: the energy for a bright future." Town officials said they will be removed because they have become decrepit.

The town authority on the same day submitted to the municipal assembly the fiscal 2015 draft budget earmarking some 4.1 million yen for the removal. If the budget is approved, the removal will begin from as early as in August, the officials said.

The signboards were set up in 1988 and 1991 in the town hosting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.