Tokyo, March 10, (dpa/GNA) - A total of 1,232 deaths in Japan's Fukushima prefecture over the past year were related to the nuclear accident four years ago, up 18 per cent from a year earlier, a news report said Tuesday.
A death is considered nuclear-related if it does not result from exposure to the accident but from an illness linked to prolonged evacuation.
Evacuees have been housed for years in temporary, sometimes isolated accommodation, seen as causing physical and emotional stress.
Namie town, close to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, had the largest number of such deaths at 359, followed by 291 in Tomioka town, which is also near the complex, the Tokyo Shimbun reported.
About 120,000 people are still unable to return home due to radioactive contamination following the disaster at the Fukushima plant in March 2011.
The plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co suffered a triple meltdown caused by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that left about 18,500 dead.
GNA
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