Survey: Half of Fukushima evacuee households split up; distress rife in families

[yuiyoshida]

FUKUSHIMA--Nearly half of households that evacuated following the Fukushima nuclear disaster have been split up while close to 70 percent have family members suffering from physical and mental distress, a survey showed.

The number of households forced to live apart exceeds the number that remain together, according the survey, the first by the Fukushima prefectural government that attempted to survey all households that evacuated.

The results were announced on April 28.

Between late January and early February, Fukushima Prefecture mailed the surveys to 62,812 households living within and outside the prefecture.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201404290046

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Rec for visibility.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Extremely sad.

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