Evacuation order partially lifted for Minamisoma

MINAMISOMA, Japan - Vehicles travel in the Odaka district of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 16, 2012, after the government lifted an evacuation order the same 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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