Ms Kanno and Eiko Takuchi in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture

Ms Kanno evacuated from her home in Shimo-Tsushima, Namie, in March 2011. Here she is accompanying Eiko Takuchi, from Kashiwazaki, Niigata prefecture, and Greenpeace radiation survey team members at the entrance to her home, surrounded by contaminated forest. This area remains inside the 'Difficult to Return" in exclusion zone, northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Radiation levels at the house remain above government decontamination targets, despite being subject to extensive decontamination. Radiation levels on average were measured at 1.3 microSieverts per hour, with maximum levels of 5.9 microSieverts per hour. Annual dose rates in the majority of the forest next to the house would range from 10-20 miliSieverts based on Japanese government modelling and 17-33 miliSieverts based on full exposure over a year. United Nations human rights Special Rapporteurs have called for the Japanese government to restore pre-2011 maximum permitted annual dose rates for the public to 1 miliSieverts, and to end its current policy of permitting up to 20 miliSieverts per year, including for children. The government plans to open a small area of Tsushima for human settlement before 2023.