Residents at last return to some areas near Fukushima nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan: 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