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(230926) -- JINHUA, Sept. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kawamata Yuumi (R) of Japan competes during the Women's Team Regu Preliminary match of Sepaktakraw between Japan and Indonesia at the 19th Asian Games in Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 26, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)

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(230925) -- JINHUA, Sept. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Pruksa Maneewong (back) of Thailand competes with Kawamata Yuumi of Japan during the Women's Team Regu Preliminary match of Sepaktakraw between Thailand and Japan at the 19th Asian Games in Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 25, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)

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(230925) -- JINHUA, Sept. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Pruksa Maneewong (back) of Thailand competes with Kawamata Yuumi of Japan during the Women's Team Regu Preliminary match of Sepaktakraw between Thailand and Japan at the 19th Asian Games in Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 25, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)

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(230925) -- JINHUA, Sept. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Pruksa Maneewong (back) of Thailand competes with Yuumi Kawamata of Japan during the Women's Team Regu Preliminary match of Sepaktakraw between Thailand and Japan at the 19th Asian Games in Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 25, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)

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(230925) -- JINHUA, Sept. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kawamata Yuumi of Japan competes during the Women's Team Regu Preliminary match of Sepaktakraw between Thailand and Japan at the 19th Asian Games in Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 25, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)

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Japan's empress turns 80

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in July 2013 shows Japanese Emperor Akihito (far L) and Empress Michiko (2nd from L) meeting with people affected by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters at an elementary school in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The empress, on the occasion of her 80th birthday on Oct 20, expressed hope that peace can be brought about ahead of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II next year.

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Man shows photos of B-29s crashed in 1945

SENDAI, Japan - Hiroshi Kawamata speaks in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 3, 2014, about his experience with showing pictures of U.S. B-29 bombers taken four months after they crashed on the ridge of Mt. Fubo in Shiraishi, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10, 1945, the day of the so-called Great Tokyo Air Raids. Residents in the city are planning to hold a memorial service for 34 crew members killed in the three B-29 crashes, in 2015, the 70th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War.

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Flowers in Fukushima evacuation zone traded in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Yoichi Kanno of the Yamakiya district of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, looks at his Lisianthus cut flowers traded in Tokyo's Ota Market on July 23, 2014, for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power accident. The district has been designated as an evacuation zone since the disaster.

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Eustoma from Fukushima hit market for 1st time since 2011

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Flower farmer Yoichi Kanno (L) and his wife Namiko (R) harvest eustoma in the town of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 21, 2014. The flowers were shipped to the market for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster.

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Kawamata gets call from Zac

NIIGATA, Japan - Albirex Niigata striker Kengo Kawamata is pictured in the town of Seiro, Niigata Prefecture, on April 3, 2014. He was given his first national team call-up as Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni named a J-League-based 23-man squad for a short training camp next week in Chiba Prefecture.

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Emperor, empress visit Fukushima's radiation-hit areas

KAWAMATA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko meet people still suffering from the aftermath of the nuclear plant accident triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, at a temporary schoolhouse in the town of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 22, 2013.

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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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Fukushima children have thyroid check

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Doctors board a bus at Fukushima Medical University in the city of Fukushima on Nov. 14, 2011, to head for a daycare center for preschool children in the town of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, to check the thyroids of children in the area. The operation is part of a project to conduct health tests on all the approximately 360,000 children and youths aged 18 or younger in the prefecture to see if the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant has affected the gland, which in growing children is particularly vulnerable to damage by radiation.

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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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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.

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TEPCO apologizes to Fukushima residents

KAWAMATA, Japan - Residents attend an information session hosted by Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on April 30, 2011, in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, which is partially under the central government's evacuation directive as a result of radiation leakage at the crippled plant.

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TEPCO apologizes to Fukushima residents

IITATE, Japan - Norio Tsuzumi, the executive vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., looks down during the utility's briefing session for the residents of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, which is partially under the central government's evacuation directive following radiation leakage from the plant. Tsuzumi apologized to the residents who were forced to leave their homes.

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TEPCO apologizes to Fukushima residents

KAWAMATA, Japan - Residents attend an information session hosted by Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on April 30, 2011, in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, which is partially under the central government's evacuation directive as a result of radiation leakage at the crippled plant.

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TEPCO apologizes to Fukushima residents

KAWAMATA, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Norio Tsuzumi (front L) bows in apology during an information session for local residents on April 30, 2011, in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture. The town partially falls under the central government's evacuation directive as a result of radiation leakage at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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TEPCO employees apologize to Fukushima evacuees

KAWAMATA, Japan - Employees (front) of Tokyo Electric Power Co. apologize by bowing deeply on the floor on April 23, 2011, to people who had been forced to leave their homes and have been staying in an evacuation center in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, due to radiation leaks from the company's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Exclusion area to be made off-limits

KAWAMATA, Japan - A man checks radiation levels of a bicycle in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on April 10, 2011, after it was transported from the area within a 30-kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The government will make the area within a 20-km radius of the crisis-hit plant covered by its evacuation directive into an off-limits zone to enhance its control of the area, senior officials said the same day.

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Exclusion area to be made off-limits

KAWAMATA, Japan - A sign on a road in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, says ''danger zone'' to caution vehicles against entering an area within a 20-kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on April 10, 2011. The government will make the area within a 20-km radius of the crisis-hit plant covered by its evacuation directive into an off-limits zone to enhance its control of the area, senior officials said the same day.

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Milk produced in Fukushima dumped

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Unprocessed milk from cows in Fukushima Prefecture is dumped in the town of Kawamata in the prefecture on March 30, 2011. About 200 tons of milk are discarded each day due to the risk of radiation contamination from the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the prefecture triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Radiation exposure test

KAWAMATA, Japan - An evacuee (C) is tested for radiation exposure in a shelter in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 13, 2011. Anxiety is growing among evacuees in the area after a blast occurred the previous day at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant hit by the March 11 massive earthquake and fears increased over radioactive leaks.

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Rakuten to acquire 54% stake in TEPCO's phone subsidiary

TOKYO, Japan - Tsunehisa Kawamata (L), president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), and Rakuten Inc. President Hiroshi Mikitani pose for a photo at a press conference in a Tokyo hotel on June 19. Rakuten said it will tap into the telecommunications industry by acquiring a 54.27 percent stake in Fusion Communications Corp., TEPCO's Internet protocol phone subsidiary.

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Fukushima town sets new yakitori record

KAWAMATA, Japan - People from the town of Kawamata in Fukushima Prefecture, known for Japanese game fowl, work on what they claim to be Japan's longest yakitori on Aug. 26. They said their dish, 12 meters and 27 centimeters long, eclipsed the previous record of 11 meters and 7 cm set only on Aug. 14 by the town of Hidakagawa in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan's largest producer of the famed Bincho charcoal.

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Rakuten to acquire 54% stake in TEPCO's phone subsidiary

TOKYO, Japan - Tsunehisa Kawamata (L), president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), and Rakuten Inc. President Hiroshi Mikitani pose for a photo at a press conference in a Tokyo hotel on June 19. Rakuten said it will tap into the telecommunications industry by acquiring a 54.27 percent stake in Fusion Communications Corp., TEPCO's Internet protocol phone subsidiary. (Kyodo)

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FW Kawamata helps Japan win soccer friendly vs. Uzbekistan

Substitute forward Kengo Kawamata (L) scores Japan's fifth goal on a header late in the second half of an international friendly against Uzbekistan at Tokyo's Ajinomoto Stadium on March 31, 2015. Japan won 5-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima youth drum group to give performance in U.S.

Members of the Yamakiya Drum group practice in the northeastern Japan town of Kawamata on Jan. 14, 2016, ahead of a planned performance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on March 22. Comprised of youth from the town's Yamakiya district, an evacuation zone from the 2011 nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi plant, the group sees the upcoming performance as an opportunity to promote the art of Japanese drums while reporting the current situation in Fukushima. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima youth drum group to give performance in U.S.

Members of the Yamakiya Drum group practice in the northeastern Japan town of Kawamata on Jan. 14, 2016, ahead of a planned performance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on March 22. Comprised of youth from the town's Yamakiya district, an evacuation zone from the 2011 nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi plant, the group sees the upcoming performance as an opportunity to promote the art of Japanese drums while reporting the current situation in Fukushima. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mega solar power station built in Fukushima town

A ribbon-cutting ceremony is held in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 24, 2015, to commemorate the completion of a mega solar power generation station. The new facility is a core reconstruction project in the town, which has been designated as an evacuation zone since the 2011 nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor, empress meet with mayor of nuclear-affected town

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko meet with Michio Furukawa (far R), mayor of the northeastern Japan town of Kawamata, during the spring imperial garden party in Tokyo on April 21, 2015. Part of Kawamata was designated as an evacuation zone in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kawamata makes case for Japan call-up with double vs Kawasaki

Kawasaki Frontale goalkeeper Yohei Nishibe (R) challenges Nagoya Grampus striker Kengo Kawamata in a Nabisco Cup group stage match at Todoroki Stadium in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on March 18, 2015. Kawamata scored twice in Nagoya's 3-1 win. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kawamata makes case for Japan call-up with double vs Kawasaki

Nagoya Grampus striker Kengo Kawamata (R) celebrates after scoring his second goal in a Nabisco Cup group stage match against Kawasaki Frontale at Todoroki Stadium in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on March 18, 2015. Kawamata scored twice in Nagoya's 3-1 win. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kawamata makes case for Japan call-up with double vs Kawasaki

New Japan soccer coach Vahid Halilhodzic visits Todoroki Stadium in Kawasaki, just south of Tokyo, on March 18, 2015, to watch a Nabisco Cup group stage match between Kawasaki Frontale and Nagoya Grampus. Nagoya won 3-1, with Grampus striker Kengo Kawamata scoring a brace. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kawamata makes case for Japan call-up with double vs Kawasaki

New Japan soccer coach Vahid Halilhodzic watches a Nabisco Cup group stage match between Kawasaki Frontale and Nagoya Grampus from the stands at Todoroki Stadium in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on March 18, 2015. Nagoya won 3-1, with Grampus striker Kengo Kawamata scoring a brace. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Latin American music fiesta in Fukushima Pref.

Cosquin en Japon, regarded as Japan's largest Central and South American music festival, begins on Oct. 10, 2015, in the town of Kawamata, part of which is still designated as an evacuation area, Fukushima Prefecture, following the 2011 disaster in the northeastern Japan region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Environment minister harvests rice with Fukushima town mayor

Michio Furukawa (L), mayor of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, and Environment Minister Yoshio Mochizuki (R) harvest rice in the northeastern Japanese town's Yamakiya district on Oct. 5, 2015. The district has been designated as an evacuation area since the 2011 nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Floriculture trial in Fukushima town uses polyester medium

Anthuriums grow inside a greenhouse on Sept. 8, 2015, during a floriculture trial in Fukushima Prefecture's Kawamata town that uses a polyester material made from recycled clothes as a substitute for soil. The method has been attracting attention since it avoids the problem posed by soil contaminated by radioactive substances. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Floriculture trial in Fukushima town uses polyester medium

Yukichi Takahashi, a farmer in charge of cultivating anthuriums as part of a floriculture trial in Fukushima Prefecture's Kawamata town that uses a polyester material made from recycled clothes as a substitute for soil, tends to the plants on Sept. 8, 2015. The method has been attracting attention since it avoids the problem posed by soil contaminated by radioactive substances. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Floriculture trial in Fukushima town uses polyester medium

A floriculture trial in Fukushima Prefecture's Kawamata town uses a polyester material made from recycled clothes as a soil substitute, as seen on Sept. 8, 2015. The method has been attracting attention since it avoids the problem posed by soil contaminated by radioactive substances. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima town sets new yakitori record

KAWAMATA, Japan - People from the town of Kawamata in Fukushima Prefecture, known for Japanese game fowl, work on what they claim to be Japan's longest yakitori on Aug. 26. They said their dish, 12 meters and 27 centimeters long, eclipsed the previous record of 11 meters and 7 cm set only on Aug. 14 by the town of Hidakagawa in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan's largest producer of the famed Bincho charcoal. (Kyodo)

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Classes resume in Fukushima after summer break

KAWAMATA, Japan - Elementary school students head to a junior high school in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 25, 2011. Classes for the pupils resumed after a summer break at the junior high school that day as their original elementary schools are in Iitate, near the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. (Kyodo)

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Soil decontamination experiment in Kawamata

KAWAMATA, Japan - Genkatsu Kanno plants seeds of quinoa and amaranthus which are believed to absorb radioactive cesium in a crop field in the town of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crippled Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant, on June 29, 2011, as part of a soil decontamination experiment. The plants are expected to be harvested and examined at the end of September 2011. (Kyodo)

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Compact dosimeters for children

KAWAMATA, Japan - A girl in the town of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 21, 2011, holds one of compact dosimeters donated by Kinki University in Osaka Prefecture. The dosimeters are scheduled to be distributed to some 1,500 children and teachers at schools and nurseries in the town from the following day in the wake of radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the vicinity stemming from the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster. Part of the town has been designated an evacuation area by the central government. (Kyodo)

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Compact dosimeters for children

KAWAMATA, Japan - Children in the town of Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 21, 2011, hold compact dosimeters donated by Kinki University in Osaka Prefecture. The dosimeters are scheduled to be distributed to some 1,500 children and teachers at schools and nurseries in the town from the following day in the wake of radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in the vicinity stemming from the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster. Part of the town has been designated an evacuation area by the central government. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Children in Fukushima

KAWAMATA, Japan - Children head to temporary classes after getting off a school bus (back) in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on June 10, 2011. The school bus had carried children from the village of Iitate to temporary classes in the neighboring town of Kawamata but halted operation that day. Some children have not yet evacuated Iitate after the village was designated an evacuation zone on April 22 due to high radiation levels over the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. (Kyodo)

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Evacuating from no-go zone near Fukushima plant

KAWAMATA, Japan - A father and son prepare to evacuate from their home in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 15, 2011. Residents began evacuating from their homes the same day, after the government widened its evacuation zone due to radiation from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO apologizes to Fukushima residents

KAWAMATA, Japan - Nao Watanabe (L front) waits for her turn to question officials of Tokyo Electric Power Co. during an information session for local residents on April 30, 2011, in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture. The 15-year-old high school student expressed concern about whether she will be able to bear a child in the future. The town partially falls under the central government's evacuation directive as a result of radiation leakage at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kyodo)