TOKYO: Evacuation orders were lifted in small sections of Tomioka, a town just southwest of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, on Saturday, in time for the area's popular cherry blossom season and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida joined a ceremony there to mark the reopening.

The area of about 4 square kilometers (1.5 square miles) where entry restrictions were lifted as part of Tomioka, most of which had already been reopened.

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