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Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga offers prayers at the Great East Japan Earthquake cenotaph in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on Saturday. | POOL / VIA KYODO
Jiji Mar 6, 2021
Fukushima – During a visit to Fukushima Prefecture on Saturday, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga vowed to continue efforts to allow evacuees from the 2011 nuclear disaster to return to their homes in the prefecture.
The prime minister paid the visit ahead of the 10th anniversary on Thursday of the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered the country’s worst-ever nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holding Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 plant.