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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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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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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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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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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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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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Iitate mayor gives address to officials

Norio Kanno, mayor of the northeastern Japan village of Iitate, addresses a meeting of municipal officials at its temporary office in the city of Fukushima on Jan. 4, 2016, at the start of the year's business. All of Iitate's residents have evacuated since the 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. "We need to do what we can," Kanno told the officials. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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. (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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Australia livestock group invites Fukushima villagers

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Melanie Brock, leader of the Japanese unit of Meat & Livestock Australia, poses for photos with Fukushima's Iitate Mayor Norio Kanno (R), Hiroshi Sano (L), an official of the village, and Shin Yamada (2nd from L), a cow breeder from the village, on May 4, 2011, in the village of Iitate. The Australian livestock producers' group invited Kanno and Sano to Sydney to take part in an upcoming fundraising event in Sydney to help disaster-affected people in Japan. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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7-Eleven store opened in Iitate, Fukushima Pref.

Norio Kanno (2nd from L), mayor of Iitate village, and others attend a tape-cutting ceremony on July 31, 2015, as Seven-Eleven Japan Co. opens its store in the Fukushima prefectural village for the first time since the nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. While all residents of the village remain evacuated, daytime visits to certain parts of the village are permitted. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo