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Employees of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) bow deeply as a bus passes by carrying people originally living in towns inside the exclusion zone near the damaged nuclear power plant which is operated by TEPCO. The government allowed strictly controlled visits by residents back to their homes and each person had to be tightly screened for radioactive contamination upon return.