A town in Japan's nuclear-hit Fukushima region has become the first of nine communities evacuated during last year's crisis to return home. Officials from Hirono, located just outside the no-entry 12-mile exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, have reopened its original town hall offices.
Hirono's local government offices, which were evacuated outside the region following last year's disaster, are the first in the region to return home, marking a significant step towards the renewal of Fukushima communities hit hard by the nuclear crisis. (telegraph.co.uk)