Evacuees enter no-entry zone / Given 2 hours, 1 plastic bag...

[AsahinaKimi]

Evacuees enter no-entry zone / Given 2 hours, 1 plastic bag, residents grab supplies for uncertain future

A woman removes food from her refrigerator in Kawauchimura on Tuesday afternoon.

KAWAUCHIMURA, Fukushima--Evacuees from Kawauchimura, Fukushima Prefecture--part of which is in the no-entry zone around the troubled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant--were allowed to briefly return to their homes to gather important documents and supplies on Tuesday.


Residents carry large bags filled with their belongings at a gymnasium in Kawauchimura, Fukushima Prefecture, on Tuesday afternoon after returning temporarily to their homes.

The group of 92 villagers was the first batch of evacuees to be permitted short home visits after they were forced to flee their residences within 20 kilometers of the crisis-stricken nuclear plant. The evacuees brought back items such as bankbooks and photographs and exited the evacuation zone in the evening.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110510005901.htm

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I understad the need to go back

but I would not have done that. Most of that is contaminated to different degrees. There are days I wonder what the Japanese government in particular, and governments in general think of their people?

[SoCalDem]

2. The ones in charge of decision making will probably no longer be in office

or even alive, as the exposed people become ill in the future:(

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. The current party in power

will see a loss of power that will last another fifty years. But they share those atitudes with the other party, currently out of power.