FUKUSHIMA--Iitate village near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant plans to lift an evacuation order next spring for a small portion of the “difficult-to-return zone” so it can reclaim ...

Iitate Village, designated by some as "one of the most beautiful villages in Japan," was more than thirty kilometers away. But because of the direction of the wind, snow, and rain, it was heavily ...

Evacuation orders for those special zones were gradually lifted from last year and the Nagadoro district of Iitate became the final area where the order was lifted on May 1. A total of about 320 ...

Iitate began bussing children to the village from their evacuation sites. In the end, about 70% of the students enrolled in the new Iitate schools. Criticism from neighboring communities ...

“Kiara & Emma,” 2001; Melissa Ann Pinney photo. Could those really be cherry blossoms lining the desolate roadways in “Iitate, Fukushima”? Yes. “When a school or a road or other public ...

For Chieko Sasaki in Fukushima Prefecture, the new era truly was a new start. She lives in the village of Iitate, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Sasaki was forced to ...

Pumpkins ★The “Iitate yukikko” (“Iitate snow girl”) is an original kind of pumpkin completed in 2011 in Iitate. It combines soft and flaky sweetness with a nice mellow texture.

Asia’s spiritual traditions of nature worship and religious syncretism are the starting point for Mami Kataoka’s curation of this year’s AWT Focus exhibition, Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the ...