TAMURA/KAWAUCHI, Japan (Kyodo) -- The government lifted its off-limits order Sunday for parts of Tamura city and Kawauchi village in Fukushima Prefecture, located near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.Residents from these areas, where radiation levels are relatively low, will now be allowed to freely enter the areas without taking protective measures against radiation exposure although they cannot stay overnight.
It was the first revision of the government's designation of evacuation zones in the current no-go zone within a 20-kilometer radius from the plant since the nuclear accident, which was triggered by the earthquake and tsunami disaster on March 11 last year.
Eimasa Tsuboi, 72, from Tamura said he wants to rebuild his family's collapsed ancestral grave first. Read More
