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The sound of brand-new machines producing rubber products echoes through a Mizuho Metal factory in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture. A year and a half after the Tokyo-based company expanded to the city, President Shinichi Okada looks back on the frantic days he spent trying to secure workers.
“We did everything we could out of desperation,” Okada, 59, said.
The factory is in the Haramachi district of Minamisoma, an area where evacuation orders have been lifted years after the March 2011 meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
