SAITAMA (Kyodo) Around 1,300 people who evacuated Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, amid the disaster at the nearby nuclear power plant started moving from their temporary shelter at Saitama Super Arena to a school building in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday.
They were to be bused to the school building, which is not currently in use, in five groups before the shelter at the large event hall is closed Thursday.
Futaba Mayor Katsutaka Idogawa and the municipal office will also move to the new evacuation space, which includes the school building, a hostel and two gymnasiums, to enable the evacuees to stay on a long-term basis because there is no end in sight to the Fukushima nuclear crisis.