A new art project in Japan commemorates the earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster by speaking to some of the survivors. Two pairs of artists, Americans and Japanese, are behind the project. Marco Werman speaks to two of the artists, Hiroyuki Abe and Sue Mark, who talk about the voices they collected from residents of the impacted Tohoku region of northeast Japan.
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