Evacuation orders will be lifted in June for the first time in the residential zone considered the most heavily contaminated from 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture.
The Supreme Court settled the issue of compensation for around 3,700 people forced to evacuate from their homes due to the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in 2011 by ordering Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the stricken facility, to pay about 1.4 billion yen ($12.2 million) in damages.
Shrouded in trees and weeds as tall as people, his old house rests quietly in a difficult-to-return zone in the Tsushima district of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, only some 30 kilometers from the hobbled nuclear plant.