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Kawauchi Village's petition for thorough decontamination

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Yuko Endo (L), mayor of Kawauchi Village, Fukushima Prefecture, hands a petition requesting thorough decontamination of radiation to Reconstruction Minister Takumi Nemoto at the village office in Fukushima Prefecture on June 19, 2014.

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Coming-of-age ceremony in Fukushima

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Kawauchi Mayor Yuko Endo (R) hands a certificate to a young woman during a ceremony for young people coming of age this fiscal year in the Fukushima Prefecture village of Kawauchi on Aug. 14, 2012. Some villagers returned home earlier this year after all the villagers were forced to evacuate in the wake of the nuclear crisis in 2011.

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Fukushima village calls on evacuees to return home

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Photo taken on the night of Jan. 31, 2012, shows an area in Kawauchi, a village in Fukushima Prefecture whose residents were forced to relocate following the nearby nuclear power plant crisis. Kawauchi Mayor Yuko Endo called on some 2,600 evacuated villagers to return home permanently at a press conference at the prefectural government offices earlier in the day.

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Fukushima village calls on evacuees to return home

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yuko Endo, the mayor of Kawauchi, a village in Fukushima Prefecture whose residents were forced to relocate following the nearby nuclear power plant crisis, calls on some 2,600 evacuated villagers to return home permanently at a press conference at the prefectural government offices on Jan. 31, 2012.

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Heads of 5 municipalities in Fukushima Pref.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Combined photos show heads of five municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture affected by the ongoing nuclear crisis -- (from L) Mayor Takashi Kusano of the town of Naraha, Minamisoma Mayor Katsunobu Sakurai, Mayor Motohoshi Yamada of the town of Hirono, Tamura Mayor Yukei Tomitsuka and Mayor Yuko Endo of the village of Kawauchi. They have expressed their concerns in interviews over the government's plan to lift its evacuation advisory by the end of September 2011.

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Opening of Kawauchi village reconstruction support base

Nagasaki University professor Noboru Takamura (C) holds a document on the establishment of a reconstruction promotion support center in the village of Kawauchi in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on July 9, 2015, together with Yuko Endo (R), village mayor, during an opening ceremony. The facilities' activities will include radioactivity measurement and health consultations for residents. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Heads of 5 municipalities in Fukushima Pref.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Combined photos show heads of five municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture affected by the ongoing nuclear crisis -- (from L) Mayor Takashi Kusano of the town of Naraha, Minamisoma Mayor Katsunobu Sakurai, Mayor Motohoshi Yamada of the town of Hirono, Tamura Mayor Yukei Tomitsuka and Mayor Yuko Endo of the village of Kawauchi. They have expressed their concerns in interviews over the government's plan to lift its evacuation advisory by the end of September 2011. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima village calls on evacuees to return home

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yuko Endo, the mayor of Kawauchi, a village in Fukushima Prefecture whose residents were forced to relocate following the nearby nuclear power plant crisis, calls on some 2,600 evacuated villagers to return home permanently at a press conference at the prefectural government offices on Jan. 31, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Fukushima village calls on evacuees to return home

KAWAUCHI, Japan - Photo taken on the night of Jan. 31, 2012, shows an area in Kawauchi, a village in Fukushima Prefecture whose residents were forced to relocate following the nearby nuclear power plant crisis. Kawauchi Mayor Yuko Endo called on some 2,600 evacuated villagers to return home permanently at a press conference at the prefectural government offices earlier in the day. (Kyodo)