A Chinaberry tree, the town tree of Futaba adorns this sewerage cover. Unfortunately, the tree may be the only resident of Futaba as it lies within the 12-mile exclusion zone from the Fukushima-Daiichi disaster of March 11, 2011. The following day nearly 7,000 residents were evacuated following the 9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami which caused a level 7 nuclear disaster where three reactors had a meltdown causing hydrogen explosions that spread radioactive material throughout the region. TEPCO, the plant operator, was faulted for failed emergency measures, not to mention the hubris of building a nuclear power plant along the coast of a highly seismic area. The Added numbers near the bottom quadrant reference the aforementioned episode. This trivet can be found as a coaster within the Notorious Japan manhole coaster set.