CAMP FOSTER, Japan, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department paid nearly $35 million to evacuate military families after Japan's March earthquake and Fukushima nuclear crisis, records indicate.
Some 9,000 American dependents at bases in central and northern Japan chose to return to the United States and a handful of other countries where their lodging and daily expenses were paid for by the U.S. government, Stars and Stripes reported Tuesday.