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Man Utd legend Charlton

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Manchester United legend Sir Bobby Charlton stands at the stadium of the J-Village soccer facility in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 11, 2013. Charlton named the J-Village more than 10 years ago. After the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, the facility turned it into an operational base to tackle the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Fukushima no-entry zone

HIRONO, Japan - A bike shop is left damaged in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as the area falls in the no-entry zone within 20 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Part of the no-entry zone, set due to the nuclear crisis resulting from the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, was shown to reporters.

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Fukushima no-entry zone

HIRONO, Japan - No people are seen in a shopping area in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as the area falls in the no-entry zone within 20 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Part of the no-entry zone, set due to the nuclear crisis resulting from the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, was shown to reporters.

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Fukushima no-entry zone

HIRONO, Japan - A wheelchair and a bed are left outside a hospital in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as the area falls in the no-entry zone within 20 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Part of the no-entry zone, set due to the nuclear crisis resulting from the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, was shown to reporters.

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Fukushima no-entry zone

HIRONO, Japan - A Shinto shrine is left leaning in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as the area falls in the no-entry zone within 20 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Part of the no-entry zone, set due to the nuclear crisis resulting from the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, was shown to reporters.

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Fukushima no-entry zone

HIRONO, Japan - A house is left collapsed in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as the area falls in the no-entry zone within 20 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Part of the no-entry zone, set due to the nuclear crisis resulting from the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, was shown to reporters.

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Fukushima no-entry zone

HIRONO, Japan - A home is left messy in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as the area falls in the no-entry zone within 20 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Part of the no-entry zone, set due to the nuclear crisis resulting from the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, was shown to reporters.

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Fukushima no-entry zone

HIRONO, Japan - No people are seen in a shopping area in the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 2, 2012, as the area falls in the no-entry zone within 20 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The signboard reads, ''Nuclear power: energy for a bright future.'' Part of the no-entry zone, set due to the nuclear crisis resulting from the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, was shown to reporters.

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Fukushima's Hirono town hall returns home

HIRONO, Japan - An employee (R) of the town of Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, speaks to a woman about procedures to return to the town on March 1, 2012, at the town hall where the municipal government returned that day, ending its evacuation following the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Hirono is just outside the no-entry zone 20 kilometers from the crippled plant.

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Evacuees visit homes within 3 km of Fukushima plant for 1st time

HIRONO, Japan - A dosimeter shows over 30 microsieverts per hour of radiation in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, within 3 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Aug. 26, 2011.

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Fukushima radioactive decontamination unit to be set up

HIRONO, Japan - Japanese nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono speaks to reporters in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 20, 2011. Hosono told Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato at the prefectural government office in the city of Fukushima the same day that the central government will set up a task force, probably the following week, to promote radioactive decontamination in areas surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Strong quake hits northeastern Japan

HIRONO, Japan - Part of the wall collapsed at a junior high school gymnasium in Hirono, Iwate Prefecture, when a strong quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 hit northeastern Japan including Iwate and Aomori prefectures during the early hours of July 24.

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Japanese war veteran from Ukraine visits parents' grave

HIRONO, Japan - Ishinosuke Uwano (C), a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, visits his parents' grave in Hirono, Iwate Prefecture, on April 21. Uwano went missing just after World War II and was recently confirmed alive in Ukraine. (Pool photo)

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Japanese war veteran from Ukraine visits parents' grave

HIRONO, Japan - Ishinosuke Uwano (front), a former Imperial Japanese Army soldier, offers incense at his parents' grave in Hirono, Iwate Prefecture, on April 21. Uwano went missing just after World War II and was recently confirmed alive in Ukraine. (Pool photo)