Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida joined a ceremony this week marking the reopening of sections of Tomioka
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida joined a ceremony this week marking the reopening of sections of Tomioka, a Japanese town just southwest of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was destroyed in 2011.
Evacuation orders were lifted in small sections of the town, just southwest of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in time for the cherry blossom season.
While strolling along a street known as „the cherry blossoms tunnel,“ former residents and visitors of Tomioka celebrated the town’s reopening.
In an interview with NHK television, Koichi Ono, 75, who was visiting the neighborhood where he lived his entire life before being forced to evacuate, said, „After 12 years, I can finally return to my life here.
