Laid waste by a nuclear disaster a decade ago, Fukushima Prefecture is still struggling to recover, even as the government tries to bring people and jobs back to former ghost towns by pouring in trillions of yen to decontaminate and rebuild.
But reconstruction efforts, from the mundane — supermarkets and transport infrastructure — to a cutting-edge hydrogen energy plant, have yet to entice more than a small fraction of the former population to return.
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