How are the Japanese people coping with Fukushima and the ongoing disaster?

[elehhhhna]

Anybody keeping up who can give a brief update? Thanks!


Will this be the current century's first mass population displacement in a "firstworld" country?

[Bonobo]

1. Those in the affected areas are very stressed.

Where I live, there is not a lot of thinking about the issue. It would be like worrying about California wildfires in Chicago.

But we know a family from Fukushima that had come to live on our island. They returned recently to Fukushima, but the mom is very worried and stressed about exposure to radiation. They just returned here for a week-long visit and apparently it makes her feel better psychologically to get away from there if even for a week.

[abelenkpe]

2. Whoa

Cant they stay away longer? Stay on the island away from the disaster? Radiation is serious.

[Bonobo]

4. The mom wants to, but it means the family being apart.

Father works in Fukushima. They were apart for almost 2 years. He is a very devoted dad and time with family is precious.

Life demands hard or even impossible choices.

[Mnemosyne]

6. It's a mad, sad world where people such as your folks have to make such decisions, Bonobo.

I hope you, and they, are holding up well. I guess many would have to make the same choices for similar reasons and just push any worry out of their minds to survive sanely. I know I would have to.

It sounds as if you come from a strong family, that is fortunate.

[Bonobo]

7. Oh, thanks but it's not my family.

Just friends.

[Mnemosyne]

8. Close enough.

[elehhhhna]

3. so sorry = and thankyou for responding.

[RobertEarl]

5. 160,000 evacuated

Never to return home?

Protests about restarting any nuke reactors.

Fishermen see their livelihoods radiated away.

And it could all blow sky high again.