Black garbage bags filled with radioactivity waste are kept temporally in a field in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Saturday, March 11, 2017. Credit: AP/Kota Endo Chief Cabinet Secretary ...

Japan’s decision to use contaminated soil in the prime minister’s garden is the culmination of its efforts to normalize the consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

FILE – Black garbage bags filled with radioactivity waste are kept temporally in a field in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan Saturday, March 11, 2017. (Kota Endo/Kyodo News via AP ...