People in Fukushima prefecture have been told not to eat 11 types of green leafy vegetables grown locally because of contamination worries.
Close to half of those children now live outside Fukushima prefecture.
On Thursday Prime Minister Naoto Kan visited evacuees in Fukushima prefecture.
The Japanese government, for all its failures, did the right thing in evacuating Fukushima Prefecture quickly and by preventing contaminated food and water from being consumed.
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Ecologists and biologists who toured Fukushima prefecture earlier this year found that the radiation release appeared to have had a dramatic impact on birds in the region.
The festival gave Asumi Kikuchi, a 13-year-old middle-school student, an opportunity to get together with three of her best friends, who are now scattered all over Fukushima prefecture.
Fukushima prefecture, which was devastated by the 2011 tsunami, saw more than 30 centimeters (1 foot) of rain in 48 hours -- the heaviest downpour there in 50 years, NHK said.
In the mid-afternoon on Friday, March 11 the seismic sensors at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan registered the earliest indications of the largest earthquake in modern Japanese history.
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Three thousand bodies have been found in Iwate prefecture, and 776 in Fukushima.
Measurements at another nuclear-power complex in the prefecture of Ibaraki, halfway between Fukushima and Tokyo, showed elevated radiation readings, officials said.
In the key aquatic products processing sector, recovery in Iwate prefecture stands at 76%, in Miyagi prefecture at 65%, and in Fukushima at 72%.
The company's factory in Kasukabe, Saitama prefecture, on the outskirts of Tokyo is about 120 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
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