IITATE, Japan — When a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, Yumi Kanno did not hesitate. She grabbed her 2-year-old son and aging ...

How To Move Forward? The town of Iitate is just outside both the mandatory evacuation zone and the 18-mile shelter-in-place zone — an area where people have been told to make efforts to stay ...

The village of Iitate in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture was once home to 6,000 people. Today, however, it is essentially a ghost town, evacuated after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...

Alongside lifting the evacuation order, the Japanese government also noted that it will end compensation payments to the former residents of Iitate after a year from when an area is declared safe ...

FUKUSHIMA--Iitate village near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant plans to lift an evacuation order next spring for a small portion of the “difficult-to-return zone” so it can reclaim ...

Contamination levels in the Japanese mountain village of Iitate are higher than in some parts of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Its evacuation has been a painful process for residents -- and many ...

Listen carefully and one place stands out: Iitate The village is 40 kilometers from the power plant, placing it well outside a 20-kilometer evacuation zone and the area where residents are advised ...

Another substantial part of the evacuation area in Fukushima prefecture has been recategorised, with most of Iitate village subject to conditional returns from tomorrow. Another substantial part of ...

Iitate Village, designated by some as "one of the most beautiful villages in Japan," was more than thirty kilometers away. But because of the direction of the wind, snow, and rain, it was heavily ...

Night - Cloudy. Winds variable. The overnight low will be 46 °F (7.8 °C). Rain with a high of 57 °F (13.9 °C) and a 68% chance of precipitation. Winds from ENE to E at 3 to 8 mph (4.8 to 12.9 kph).