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Japanese government adviser Toshiso Kosako is overcame with emotion during a news conference Friday, April 29, 2011 in Tokyo announcing his resignation from the position. The expert on radiation exposure said he could not stay and allow the government to set what he called improper radiation limits of 20 millisieverts an hour for elementary schools in areas near the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
Villagers in protective gear head to a bus taking them to their houses for the first time since March 11 earthquake and tsunami, located near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. About 100 evacuees were allowed into the exclusion zone around Japan's troubled nuclear plant Tuesday for a brief visit to gather belonging from their homes. The excursion marked the first time the government has felt confident enough in the safety of the area to sanction even short trips there. Residents have been pushing hard for weeks for permission to check up on their homes.
Villagers clean the kitchen of their home during a brief visit - their first since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami - to their house located near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, Tuesday, May 10, 2011.
A villager is screened for radiation exposure after making a brief visit - her first since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami - to her house located near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Japan's Emperor Akihito listens to Soma Mayor Hidekiyo Tachiya, in white, during a visit to an area devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, Wednesday, May 11, 2011.
Japan's Emperor Akihito (R) and Empress Michiko pray for the victims at an area which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Soma, Fukushima prefecture, about 50km from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, May 11, 2011, on the two-month anniversary of the quake and tsunami.
Japan's Emperor Akihito (R) talks to evacuees at a radioactive relocation centre in Fukushima, northeastern Japan on May 11, 2011. Last month the Japanese government announced an initial 49 billion USD special budget for areas hit by the quake and tsunami, which left some 25,000 people dead or missing.
Anti-nuclear protesters, one holding a placard bearing images of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) executives, march in downtown Tokyo Saturday, May 7, 2011. Images from left are: TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu, Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and Vice President Sakae Muto. At top is Nuclear Safety Commission Chief Haruki Madarame. The words said:"(You) have being telling lies for long time."
President of troubled Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), Masataka Shimizu (top C-with bull horn), is joined by company employees as they speak to evacuees from the town of Namie near TEPCO's Fukushima nuclear power plant, to apologise for the nuclear crisis, at a shelter for those displaced in Nihonmatsu in Fukushima prefecture, 50 kms west of the stricken nuclear power plant on May 4, 2011. Japanese engineers on May 3 started preparing to send workers inside the Fukushima nuclear power station's reactor one building, the first time workers will have gone inside the building since the March 11 disaster, when four of the six reactors at the plant were heavily damaged by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu, back to camera third from right, bows in apology to Namie villagers at an evacuation center at Nihonmatsu in Fukushima prefecture, on Wednesday May 4, 2011. They have been living at the center since fleeing from their village of Namie, which is located in a 30-kilometer zone from the radioactive-spewing Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
Toyota Motor Corp Executive Vice President Satoshi Ozawa (C) is surrounded by reporters after a news conference in Tokyo May 11, 2011. Toyota Motor Corp posted a 52 percent fall in quarterly operating profit on Wednesday and gave no annual forecasts, as expected, as it struggles to measure the scope of the disruption to production after the March 11 earthquake.
Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn speaks during a news conference in Yokohama, south of Tokyo May 12, 2011. Nissan Motor Co posted a 7.2 percent rise in quarterly operating profit on Thursday and said global production disrupted by Japan's March 11 earthquake will return to normal a least a month earlier than predicted by bigger home rival, Toyota Motor Corp.