Expressway fully opens, linking Saitama with Miyagi via Fukushima

Expressway fully opens, linking Saitama with Miyagi via Fukushima

A radiation-level monitor board (L) is set up on the side of an expressway in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture on March 1, 2015, after the 300-kilometer expressway linking Saitama Prefecture with Miyagi Prefecture via Fukushima, a prefecture hit hard by the 2011 killer tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis, was fully opened to traffic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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