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Rice planting in Fukushima

Rice is planted in a paddy on May 23, 2025, in the Nagadoro area of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, which saw partial lifting in 2023 of the evacuation instruction imposed in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. If the planted rice clears safety tests for radioactive materials when harvested, the Nagadoro area would be able to ship rice to the market for the first time since the nuclear disaster.

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Rice planting in Fukushima

Rice is planted in a paddy on May 23, 2025, in the Nagadoro area of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, which saw partial lifting in 2023 of the evacuation instruction imposed in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster. If the planted rice clears safety tests for radioactive materials when harvested, the Nagadoro area would be able to ship rice to the market for the first time since the nuclear disaster.

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Evacuation order lifted in Fukushima village

Gates to the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are opened on May 1, 2023, after the Japanese government lifted an evacuation order for parts of the village the same day. The restrictions have been in place since the March 2011 nuclear disaster left the areas inhabitable due to high radiation levels.

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Evacuation order lifted in Fukushima village

Makoto Sugioka, mayor of the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, speaks to the press on May 1, 2023, after the Japanese government lifted an evacuation order for parts of the village the same day. The restrictions have been in place since the March 2011 nuclear disaster left the areas inhabitable due to high radiation levels.

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Evacuation order lifted in Fukushima village

Makoto Sugioka, mayor of the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, speaks to the press on May 1, 2023, after the Japanese government lifted an evacuation order for parts of the village the same day. The restrictions have been in place since the March 2011 nuclear disaster left the areas inhabitable due to high radiation levels.

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Evacuation order lifted in Fukushima village

Residents enter the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on May 1, 2023, after the Japanese government lifted an evacuation order for parts of the village the same day. The restrictions have been in place since the March 2011 nuclear disaster left the areas inhabitable due to high radiation levels.

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Evacuation order lifted in Fukushima village

Gates to the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are opened on May 1, 2023, after the Japanese government lifted an evacuation order for parts of the village the same day. The restrictions have been in place since the March 2011 nuclear disaster left the areas inhabitable due to high radiation levels.

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Cleanup work continues in village hit by nuke disaster

IITATE, Japan - Men engage in decontamination work along a national highway in an evacuation area in Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 10, 2014, on the eve of the day marking three and a half years since a massive earthquake and tsunami ravaged northeastern Japan in 2011 and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster.

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Public housing for nuclear disaster evacuees completed

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Norio Kanno (4th from L), mayor of Iitate Village in Fukushima Prefecture, cuts the tape at a ceremony in Fukushima City on Aug, 31, 2014, to mark the completion of public housing for people who evacuated following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident caused by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Cherry blossoms in Iitate, Fukushima Pref.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Cherry blossoms are in full bloom in the Nagadoro district, where access has been limited following the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Iitate Village, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 27, 2014.

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Evacuee visits home in Iitate, Fukushima Pref.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Masato Takahashi jokingly demonstrates how cattle eat feed in his vacated barn in the Nagadoro district in Iitate Village, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 6, 2014. Takahashi lives in temporary housing in Fukushima City, about a one-hour drive from the village, after evacuating due to the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Ex-dairy farmer reports Fukushima disaster aftermath

TOKYO, Japan - Kenichi Hasegawa (R), a former dairy farmer evacuated from Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, lectures in Tokyo on June 11, 2014, on the life of farmers after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Rebirth of Iitate discussed in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Kanno (2nd from L) of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, exchanges opinions with participants at a meeting held at the University of Tokyo's campus in Bunkyo Ward on May 25, 2014, to discuss the current situation and the future of the village. Iitate is a village affected by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant disaster.

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Resurrection of Iitate discussed in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants of a meeting to discuss the current situation and the future of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, look at photographs showing the condition of Iitate at the University of Tokyo's campus in Bunkyo Ward on May 25, 2014. Iitate is a village affected by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant disaster.

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Photographer reveals reality on Fukushima farm

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 14, 2014 shows Tadao Mitome, a photographer who published a photo book titled "3/11 Fukushima: Hibaku no Bokujo (Stock Farm Exposed to Radiation)," documenting a farm in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, and dying horses there.

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Farmer still holds grudge against TEPCO

IITATE, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 15, 2013 shows Nobuyoshi Ito, who describes himself as an "apprentice farmer," holding a dosimeter in front of snow-covered bags containing earth and sand resulting from decontamination work in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Emperor, empress visit Fukushima's radiation-hit areas

IITATE, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko visit a precision machinery parts factory in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 22, 2013. The imperial couple visited Fukushima Prefecture and met people still suffering from the aftermath of the nuclear plant accident triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. (Pool photo)

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Choi Ji Woo in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - South Korean actress Choi Ji Woo offers Korean food in the city of Fukushima on Feb. 22, 2013, for evacuees from the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture. They evacuated the village after the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Japan general election

IITATE, Japan - Yukiko Kada, head of the Tomorrow Party of Japan, makes a stump speech in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning kicked off for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Japan general election

IITATE, Japan - Yukiko Kada, head of the Tomorrow Party of Japan, makes a stump speech in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning kicked off for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Japan general election

IITATE, Japan - Yukiko Kada, head of the Tomorrow Party of Japan, makes a stump speech in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning kicked off for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Japan general election

IITATE, Japan - Yukiko Kada, head of the Tomorrow Party of Japan, makes a stump speech in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 4, 2012, after official campaigning kicked off for the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Tablets for Fukushima evacuees

SOMA, Japan - Joji Sato, an evacuee from the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, talks to Iitate Mayor Norio Kanno via a tablet computer from Soma in the same prefecture on Aug. 8, 2012. The Iitate government has distributed tablet computers to all its households and began the same day a system to foster communication among its residents, virtually all of whom have evacuated their homes due to the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Asteroid named Iitatemura

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Hiroaki Ono (L), head of the Hoshinomura astronomical observatory in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, hands to Norio Kanno, mayor of the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, a certificate made by Ono stating that an asteroid has been recognized as having the name "Iitatemura" (the village of Iitate) by the International Astronomical Union, at a village government office on July 19, 2012. Ono named the asteroid after the village, which came under evacuation orders due to the nuclear crisis.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Officials (C) from the Cabinet Office lock fences on a road leading to the Nagadoro district of Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, past midnight of July 16, 2012. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Masato Takahashi, 75, who was born and brought up in the Nagadoro district of Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, grips a fence set up on a road leading to the district on July 16, 2012, before the government locks fences on roads leading to the district at midnight. "I feel like I am being locked up in prison even though I didn't do anything bad," he said. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Grass is being cut in the Nagadoro district of Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, with a dosimeter (front) showing radiation levels of more than nine microsieverts per hour, before the government locks fences on roads leading to the district at midnight. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Workers decontaminate farmland in the Nagadoro district of Iitate village, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, before the government locks fences on roads leading to the district at midnight. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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Nuclear disaster-hit village reclassified into 3 areas

IITATE, Japan - Residents of Iitate, a village in Fukushima Prefecture, visit their ancestors' graves in the village's Nagadoro district on July 16, 2012, before the government locks fences on roads leading to the district at midnight. The village, nearly all of whose residents have been evacuated since the March 2011 nuclear accident, was reclassified July 17 into three areas with varying levels of accessibility. Due to the high level of radiation exposure, the Nagadoro district was classified as "an area difficult to return to" for a long period of time.

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Mayor of nuclear disaster-hit Iitate village

NEW YORK, United States - Norio Kanno, the mayor of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, a village badly affected by the nuclear crisis following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, addresses an audience in New York on Feb. 18, 2012, about the villagers' efforts to recover from the disaster.

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Education minister Hirano at school in Fukushima Pref.

KAWAMATA, Japan - Japan's education minister Hirofumi Hirano eats lunch provided by the school with elementary students at a junior high school in the town of Kawamata in Fukushima Prefecture on Jan. 19, 2012. The students evacuated from the village of Iitate, a high-risk area in the prefecture for radiation exposure due to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Ground troops decontaminate Fukushima

IITATE, Japan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force decontaminate areas tainted with radioactive substances from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station near the village hall in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2011. The GSDF began the decontamination operation that day.

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GSDF troops decontaminate Fukushima

IITATE, Japan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force decontaminate areas tainted with radioactive substances from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant near the village hall in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2011.

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Ground troops decontaminate Fukushima

IITATE, Japan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force decontaminate areas tainted with radioactive substances from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station near the village hall in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2011. The GSDF began the decontamination operation that day.

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Ground troops decontaminate Fukushima

IITATE, Japan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force decontaminate areas tainted with radioactive substances from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station near the village hall in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2011. The GSDF began the decontamination operation that day.

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Ground troops decontaminate Fukushima

IITATE, Japan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force decontaminate areas tainted with radioactive substances from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station near the village hall in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2011. The GSDF began the decontamination operation that day.

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German film director Wenders in Fukushima Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Renowned German film director Wim Wenders visits the municipal office of the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2011. People were advised to evacuate from the village due to the relatively high levels of radiation caused by the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Unmanned copter surveys airborne radiation levels in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - An unmanned helicopter surveys airborne radiation levels in Iitate village in Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 7, 2011. The helicopter is being used as part of an Environment Ministry survey to collect data for use when drawing up decontamination measures in the prefecture affected by the ongoing nuclear crisis.

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Unmanned copter surveys airborne radiation levels in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - An unmanned helicopter surveys airborne radiation levels in Iitate village in Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 7, 2011. The helicopter is being used as part of an Environment Ministry survey to collect data for use when drawing up decontamination measures in the prefecture affected by the ongoing nuclear crisis.

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Film director Wenders in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - German film director Wim Wenders (3rd from L) visits the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2011. The village is designated as an evacuation zone due to the relatively high levels of radiation caused by the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Film director Wenders in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - German film director Wim Wenders (rear L) visits the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2011. The village is designated as an evacuation zone due to the relatively high levels of radiation caused by the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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IAEA team inspects elementary school

IITATE, Japan - A team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency inspects rice fields in the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 10, 2011. Demonstration tests are being conducted in the fields to remove radioactive substances in the wake of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Minister visits decontaminated rice paddy

IITATE, Japan - Farm minister Michihiko Kano (L) visits a rice paddy with rice planted after undergoing an experimental operation to reduce radioactive substances in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 7, 2011. Extensive areas of the prefecture and elsewhere were contaminated due to an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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PM Kan meets mayors from Fukushima Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) receives letters of request from Kawamata Mayor Michio Furukawa (C) and Iitate Mayor Norio Kanno (L) from Fukushima Prefecture at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 15, 2011. Kan said the government will support them in securing employment of local residents.

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Iitate residents patrol exclusion zone

IITATE, Japan - Residents of the village of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on their way to patrolling around their empty homes in the exclusion zone on June 6, 2011.

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Experiment to decontaminate farmland

IITATE, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano (front, R) and Norio Kanno (front, L), mayor of Iitate Village, Fukushima Prefecture, sow sunflower seeds at a field rented from a local farmer in the village on May 28, 2011, as Japan began the same day an experiment to remove radioactive materials from farmland by growing plants and using a mineral, amid radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the prefecture.

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Radiation screenings on cattle in village of Iitate

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Radiation screenings on cattle are conducted on May 24, 2011, at a farm in the village of Iitate near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Fukushima Prefecture, before they are sold at markets.

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More Fukushima residents forced to evacuate

IITATE, Japan - Residents of Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture listen to their mayor Norio Kanno (L) speak before their evacuation from the village on May 15, 2011. More residents have been forced to leave their homes in the prefecture since the central government widened its evacuation zone due to radiation from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Families in village affected by nuclear crisis

IITATE, Japan - Families with babies or small children attend a briefing on an evacuation plan in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 10, 2011. Residents of the village are to evacuate soon due to high radiation levels from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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TEPCO apologizes to Fukushima residents

KAWAMATA, Japan - Residents who were forced to evacuate from their homes due to radiation leakage at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant listen to Norio Tsuzumi, the executive vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant operator, speak during a briefing session in the village of Iitate on April 30, 2011.