A medical clinic in Futaba Town, Fukushima Prefecture While progress has been made in the difficult-to-return zone, more than 90% of the locations within it have evacuation orders still in place.

ON March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS), releasing ...

s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is located, had to evacuate about 7,000 residents due to the accident. Since the evacuation order was lifted in 2020, people are now free to enter some parts ...

The Fukushima disaster was one of the world's ... The government has lifted evacuation orders for much of the region affected by the meltdown, except for some no-go zones with high radiation ...

FUTABA, Fukushima Prefecture—Two-and-a-half years after evacuation orders were lifted in parts of Futaba, the municipal government is focused on attracting new residents to revitalize the community.

The Fukushima disaster forced the evacuation of more than 150,000 people from surrounding areas, many of whom were never able to return due to radiation contamination. In the years since ...

The resident population of seven towns and villages in northeast Japan's Fukushima Prefecture that were temporarily evacuated ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 years ago, with workers walking around in many areas wearing only ...

Even when the authorities fully lifted the evacuation order on 20 percent of the town in 2017, including his farm, many former residents chose not to return. The population of Namie is still only ...

MINAMISOMA, Fukushima -- The resident population of ... with many over time shifting their livelihoods to the evacuation areas, particularly among those from places where evacuation orders were ...

The windswept, rolling countryside of Minamisoma feels like the middle of nowhere, but it is actually at the heart of a critical strategy for Fukushima Prefecture. Inside a gleaming compound ...