Soccer facility made base for work at Fukushima plant

TOKYO, Japan - People walk into a hotel at the soccer training facility J Village in Fukushima Prefecture on April 21, 2011. J Village was made into a base of work to put the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control. The facility, approximately 20 kilometers south of the plant, was built in 1997 by the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. at a cost of 13 billion yen and was donated to the prefecture.

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