By NORIYOSHI OHTSUKI/ Senior Staff Writer
December 18, 2020 at 19:05 JST
JR Namie Station, upper right, in Fukushima Prefecture is surrounded by vacant land in March 2019, after homes and shops damaged by the 2011 nuclear disaster were demolished. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The government will pay up to 2 million yen ($19,300) to families that move to areas around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, an unprecedented offer for recovery from the 2011 disaster. [Read More]
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