Today’s Japan Today carries a lead picture of a memorial service held in the nuclear exclusion zone in Tohoku.  (photo courtesy of AP)



Shinto priests hold a memorial ceremony in the abandoned town of Namie inside the 20-km nuclear exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on Sunday. A group of former residents returned to the area for the day to hold the ceremony at the site of the ancient Kusano shrine that was destroyed by the March 11, 2011 tsunami.