By KAI ICHINO/ Staff Writer
January 23, 2024 at 19:04 JST
National Route 249 was impassable in a sagging and cracked section about 10 kilometers north of the Shika nuclear power plant in Shika, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Jan. 5. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
The government plans to review evacuation plans after about 400 people were stranded within 30 kilometers from a nuclear plant in the Noto Peninsula for at least eight days following the Jan. 1 earthquake. [Read More]
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