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SENDAI—On a chilly night in early February, Masatoshi Suzuki hauled a black plastic bag containing four macaque carcasses into his lab at Tohoku University.
Nearly 60 percent of the mayors of 42 municipalities in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures oppose the planned discharge of accumulated water from the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, an Asahi Shimbun survey showed.
OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Eleven years after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was ravaged by a meltdown following a massive earthquake and tsunami, the plant now looks like a sprawling construction site.
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture—A school building here that was destroyed in a water-fire combination during the 2011 tsunami has been rebuilt into a disaster memorial.
Monuments stand in areas that were the scenes of unfathomable destruction and misery 11 years ago.