65% of Fukushima evacuees have no intention of returning home: survey

Sixty-five percent of the people who evacuated from Fukushima Prefecture after the March 2011 nuclear disaster have no intention of returning, according to a recent survey conducted by a Japanese university.While the survey, conducted by a research facility at Kwansei Gakuin University, only received responses from 522 of 4,876 people to whom questionnaires were sent, it provided a rare insight into how former residents see the reconstruction of their former home.The government of the northeastern prefecture has not carried out such surveys in recent years. There were over 36,900 evacuees w…READ FULL ARTICLE