THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 12, 2023 at 15:14 JST
Exhaust stacks of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are seen in the far background from Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 11. (Sayuri Ide)
Fukushima Prefecture has recorded a cumulative 2,335 “disaster-related” deaths from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, by far the largest figure among the three hardest-hit prefectures in the Tohoku region. [Read More]
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