Fukushima – The town of Futaba, which hosts part of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, on Thursday started allowing some residents to stay overnight at their homes for the first time in more than a decade.
People subject to the program are mainly those who have homes in areas that could see their evacuation order lifted as early as June this year.
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