Fukushima mayors meet environment chief on storage of tainted waste

Futaba Mayor Shiro Izawa (far L) and Okuma Mayor Toshitsuna Watanabe (2nd from L), both from Fukushima Prefecture, meet Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki in Tokyo on May 28, 2015, to discuss the construction in the two northeastern Japanese towns of interim storage facilities for tainted waste collected from decontamination work following the 2011 nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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