According to Masami Akita , this album was intended to be called Flax , inspired by its uses in a vegetarian diet . But , while the album was in recording stages , the 2011 Japanese earthquake struck and the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents just after that . It then came to Akita 's attention that it was going to be the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the theme of the album was changed to nuclear accidents and the connections between Fukushima and Chernobyl . The CD is dedicated to the worldwide anti-nuclear movement
2011 Japanese earthquake
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Dead Zone (album)