Japan widens evacuations outside plant zone

Japan widens evacuations outside plant zone
Tokyo (AFP) May 15, 2011 - Japan on Sunday started the first evacuations of homes outside a government exclusion zone after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami crippled one of the country's nuclear power plants. Some 4,000 residents of Iidate-mura village as well as 1,100 people in Kawamata-cho town, in the quake-hit northeast, began the phased relocations to public housing, hotels and other facilities in nearby citie ... more

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