FILE - Visitors check seafood sold at the seafood market "Lalamew" near the Onahama fish port in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 19, 2023 in Iwaki, northeastern Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene ...

Iwaki, my home town, stood ... Evacuation zones initially covered 12 per cent of Fukushima prefecture. ... the city residents would not suffer as deeply as those living near the power plant.

We will visit this city of the future 20 years hence, pledged my friend and I on the train to Iwaki, two-and-a-half hours south of Futaba. Though badly damaged by the tsunami, the city has rebounded.

Ayaka Saito, 35, a full-time employee at vessel parts maker Ena Seisakusho in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, fine-tunes a lathe to shave a piece of metal to perfection to complete a part ...

The installation is being developed in the area of Iwaki-city and Hirono-town in Fukushima Prefecture. Abukuma South Wind Power said it signed a supply agreement with Kandenko, the lead contractor ...

Four top Japanese government ministers, including Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, ate sashimi from Fukushima this week, seeking to dispel safety concerns about fish from the region after the release ...

"I had a faint hope that they would keep the promise, but eventually that was a lie," a 62-year-old fisherman from Iwaki City in Fukushima Prefecture was quoted by local media as saying.

IWAKI, Japan -- Takuma Ide's plastic-gloved hands deftly clean one small, silver fish after another over the sink in his compact, tidy kitchen in the coastal city of Iwaki, Fukushima prefecture.

The "Hama-no-aji Domburiya" (lit. bowls of rice with the taste of seafood) restaurant is seen in the Fukushima Prefecture city of Iwaki's Onahama district on June 17, 2023.