TOKYO POLICE CEASE NUCLEAR ART STUNT
The AFP reports that over the weekend an anonymous artist in Japan added an image of the Fukushima atomic plant to a public mural in a Tokyo train station. Police removed it on Sunday evening.
The clandestine image, which was painted in a style mimicking that of acclaimed Japanese painter Taro Okamoto’s work Myth of Tomorrow, created a stir on Twitter. Myth of Tomorrow, created in Mexico in 1968–69, was missing for many years but was rediscovered in 2003, and returned to Japan. It was installed at a pedestrian overpass at the Shibuya railway station in 2008.
The added small wooden panel, which shows black smoke billowing from reactor buildings resembling those at Fukushima, was attached to the wall without causing damage to the original 100-foot long wall painting.
