• Better late than never: A girl clutches her graduation certificate while beaming at her mother Sunday at a joint graduation ceremony for two schools from Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, in the city of Kawamata. The ceremony for the nursery and elementary schools was delayed by nine months because of the mass evacuation triggered by the Fukushima nuclear crisis in March. | KYODO
    Better late than never: A girl clutches her graduation certificate while beaming at her mother Sunday at a joint graduation ceremony for two schools from Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, in the city of Kawamata. The ceremony for the nursery and elementary schools was delayed by nine months because of the mass evacuation triggered by the Fukushima nuclear crisis in March. | KYODO

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OSAKA – At least 2,439 complaints about dubious sales schemes related to quake, tsunami and nuclear damage have been reported to the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan since the triple disasters occurred in March.

According to a Kyodo News survey released Saturday, around ¥970 million has already been paid out for suspicious goods and services, including exorbitant house repairs, flawed radiation gauges and water filters touted to remove radioactivity.

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