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Japan Evacuees Brave Radiation Fears to Briefly Return Home
Some residents in the town of Namie were forced to flee their homes a month ago, when radiation began spewing from a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant, are making furtive trips back into the so-called hot zone.
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Cattle on the loose graze on shrubbery at an abandoned home, Namie, Fukushima Pref., Japan, March 12 2011 (VOA - S. L. Herman)
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One of the few signs of life in Namie, Fukushima Pref., Japan, March 12 2011 (VOA - S. L. Herman)
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A tractor remains partly buried in mud from the tsunami, Namie, Fukushima Pref., Japan March 12 2011 (VOA - S. L. Herman)
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A boat carried inland a month ago by the tsunami still sits in a field, Namie, Fukushima Pref., Japan, March 12 2011 (VOA - S. L. Herman)