TOKYO – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has visited a shelter in Japan's disaster zone to offer support to people evacuated from their homes after a March earthquake and tsunami sent a nuclear plant into meltdown.
Ban is meeting Japan's prime minister and other leaders in Tokyo after he visited an evacuation center in Fukushima city on Monday. The city is about 60 kilometers (40 miles) from the severely damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Tens of thousands of Japanese were forced to leave their homes when the plant suffered meltdowns, fires and radiation leaks in the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
The earthquake and tsunami on March 11 left about 23,000 people dead or missing along Japan's northeast coast.
