AIZU-WAKAMATSU, Fukushima -- A school is to reopen in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, in April after a 12-year hiatus. Residents of the town were ordered to evacuate following the nuclear disaster triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
Manabiya Yumenomori, which provides elementary and junior high school education, currently operates in Aizu-Wakamatsu City. Okuma moved its governmental functions to the city following the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that straddles Okuma and Futaba in the prefecture.
The reopened school will have a certified childcare facility and serve 26 children, providing them with their first scholastic experience in Okuma Town, where their families lived prior to the disaster.
