Japan's prime minister said the reopening of the area of Tomioka, a town near the wrecked Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, was 'by no means a final goal, but the start of the recovery' from the 2011 disaster.
Japan has officially reopened part of a town evacuated 12 years ago in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.Its reopening was celebrated on Saturday, in time for the popular cherry blossom season.
Former residents and visitors celebrated as they strolled along a street known as"the cherry blossoms tunnel"."The lifting of the evacuation is by no means a final goal, but the start of the recovery," Mr Kishida said at the ceremony.Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers a speech to mark the reopening. Pic: AP
More than 160,000 residents in the areas surrounding the nuclear power plant were evacuated after a triple meltdown at the facility in March 2011. The meltdown was triggered when four of the site's reactor buildings were damaged in the wake of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake - the most powerful ever recorded inA subsequent tsunami hit the area, sending huge waves over the facility's sea walls, and damaging the plant's backup generators.
Around 18,000 died across Japan as a result of the quake and tsunami, while a 20km exclusion zone was put in place as a result of the nuclear meltdown.
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