TAMURA, Japan, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Japan's first man in space says he abandoned his farm outside the Fukushima nuclear power plant evacuation zone, fearing radiation could reach that far.
"I used my retirement pay to buy the farmland and build a house," said Toyohiro Akiyama, 69, who as a journalist with Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. flew on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the MIR space station in 1990.