Reply #28: I'd also be very worried about... [View All]

[SpoonFed]

all the radioactive isotopes that the Japanese are now spreading throughout their country from the exclusion zone around this hellish nightmare. Although it's been on my radar for weeks, apparently only as of yesterday or the day before have the Japanese government finally issued orders to actually stop people from traversing into the exclusion zone(s) to collect belongings and things on the threat of arrest and fines.

This means that contaminated items of all kinds are now and have been for over a month being spread throughout the rest of the country. My good friend who is living in Japan was livid when he told me that all the Japanese were doing was posting paper signs around the area to warn people not to enter. Some of us actually remember Chornobyl then and now and so this was just shocking.

My conclusion is that you have very little control over your exposure to these substances as a result and simply not eating certain foods from certain areas is not enough. I note how there are few stories of people leaving Japan setting off detectors at international airports for example. I'm not sure I can believe that.

(I wouldn't want to be touching the escalator hand rail just after the guy from Fukushima Pref who just went to pick up his old B&W 10" television.)

So add this to the incredibly slow response of the Japanese government to the management and reduction of this crisis. It's also shocking to read about how the report that the government is only testing vegetables after extensive cleaning.

It's like a total state of denial. Double entendre, intended.

My Canadian friend who has lived there for more than 7 years and was married to a Japanese woman is the complete opposite of your brother and others in that he has a very rational fears of the Japanese government's reponse to this man-made crisis.

I remember (weeks ago now) that he was going to be buying his food from the Japanese equivalent of Costco for the forseable future since the food is imported from North America in large part.

The situation is beyond terrible and I wish your brother the best of luck.