Nearly half of the families that fled from Fukushima Prefecture when the nuclear crisis began three years ago have been separated by housing problems, work requirements and children's educational needs, according to a recent survey of the prefecture.
Although municipal governments in the exclusion zone have undertaken similar studies in the past, this was the first to cover the whole prefecture, including those forced to evacuate and those who left of their own volition.
The prefectural government sent questionnaires to 62,812 families and received replies from 20,680. The results of the survey were released Monday.