Evacuation order partially lifted for Minamisoma

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Police officers remove a sign banning entry on a national road in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, at 11:56 p.m. on April 15, 2012. The Japanese government lifted an evacuation order the following day for some parts of the city that was issued around a year earlier in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi power complex.

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