OKUMA, FUKUSHIMA PREF. ¨C Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter, Princess Aiko, on Tuesday?visited an educational facility in Fukushima Prefecture, which was struck by a powerful earthquake and tsunami 15 years ago.
The facility, Manabiya Yumenomori, in the town of Okuma functions as an integrated elementary and junior high school and a certified kodomoen kindergarten-nursery hybrid. Okuma is one of the two municipalities hosting Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings¡¯ Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station, which was severely damaged in the March 2011 disaster.
Following the nuclear accident, two elementary schools and a junior high school in Okuma were relocated to the city of Aizuwakamatsu in the prefecture. The schools were then integrated and returned to the town in 2023.
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