THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 7, 2022 at 07:00 JST
Miyagi prefectural assemblywoman Miyuki Yusa, third from left in the foreground, hands over a request to stop distributing booklets on the discharge of processed tainted water into the ocean to Akiyo Ito, head of the secretariat of Miyagi Prefecture’s education board, at the Miyagi prefectural government office on Feb. 21. (Ryuichiro Fukuoka)
Complaints from educators have prompted some municipalities in coastal areas of the Tohoku region to stop schools from handing out government fliers to students or retrieve distributed ones that tout the safety of releasing treated water from a crippled nuclear plant into the ocean. [Read More]
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