via EX-SKF / June 19, 2013 / From rice to be grown and harvested in 2013, the national government is buying up 250,000 tonnes for the government’s rice reserve; of that, 40,000 tonnes, or 16%, may come from Fukushima Prefecture. The Fukushima prefectural government is encouraging farmers to participate in the government bidding if they fear “baseless rumors” driving down the price for their rice in the open market. Once … Continue reading →
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via The Star / May 22, 2013 / Farmers have resumed planting rice for market only 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, a local official said Wednesday. It was the first time since the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster that farmers have gone inside the former 20-kilometre “no-go” zone around the doomed plant to sow rice intended for sale. The zone has been redefined to … Continue reading →
Continue readingby Cherrie Lou Bullones / The Japan Daily Press / January 21, 2013 / A murasoi fish, comparable to a rockfish, was found at a port in the area of the now-closed Fukushima nuclear power plant, which contained 254,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium, a…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / December 26, 2012 / The catastrophe at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant not only affected people directly in Fukushima Prefecture but also harmed the local economy. Sales of products from the prefectu…
Continue readingNo change for Fukushima restrictions by Takehito Kudo / via The Daily Yomiuri / October 21, 2012 / BRUSSELS–The European Union has decided to substantially ease import restrictions on food products and animal feed from Tokyo and 10 prefectures th…
Continue readingby Miako Ichikawa / The Asahi Shimbun / September 5, 2012 / In a peaceful ivy-covered restaurant in the Fussaninomiya district in Fussa, western Tokyo, several women and children are having lunch. In the corner sits a machine that looks like a rice coo…
Continue readingby Deborah Dupre / Examiner.com / August 30, 2012 / The central government of Japan has ordered Aomori Prefecture to suspend shipping Pacific cod caught near the port of Hachinohe due to excessive levels of cesium detected, according to The Japan Times…
Continue readingvia AsiaOne / August 26, 2012 / The Fukushima prefectural government on Saturday began checking all bags of rice for radiation in Nihonmatsu, home to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The prefecture decided on radiation checks for the e…
Continue readingvia The Daily Yomiuri / August 23, 2012 / Tokyo Electric Power Co. has said that 38,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram have been detected in a fish caught for sampling about 20 kilometers offshore from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclea…
Continue readingvia The Telegraph / August 3, 2012 / Octopus from the sea off Fukushima is back on sale at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Seafood Market – at a premium price. It is the first time since Tokyo Electric’s Fukushima No 1 Nuclear Power Plant started lea…
Continue readingby Alex Roslin / straight.com / July 19, 2012 / Are fish from the Pacific Ocean and Japanese coastal and inland waters safe to eat 16 months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster? Governments and many scientists say they are. But the largest collection …
Continue readingvia RT / July 21, 2012 / Fears are rising in the US that the popular blue-fin tuna caught off the west coast contains radiation. Scientists say last year’s nuclear disaster in Japan is to blame, but some claim these radioactive findings may only …
Continue readingvia MsMilkytheClown / July 14, 2012 / Noda goes NE to see how “reconstruction” of that area is – promises to help fishermen after land sank one meter after earthquake/tsunami. Fukushima doing test catches of seafood to check safety an…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 14, 2012 / Fishermen in Fukushima, Japan, have begun a new round of test catches of marine products. The fishermen hope to be able to put them on the market if they prove safe in terms of radioactive materials following last year’s…
Continue readingvia Kyodo / July 2, 2012 / The Environment Ministry said Monday it detected 61 to 2,600 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in 23 varieties of freshwater fish sampled at five rivers and lakes in Fukushima Prefecture between December and Febru…
Continue readingvia DailyMotion / February 15, 2012 / Japanese Gov’t Appointed 9 College Beauty Queens… ??? sievert311 MORE ON THIS STORY: Fukushima Ambassadors to “Eat and Support East Japan”
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / February 16, 2012 / The Japanese government is going to make these young women eat food from the nuclear-disaster affected Tohoku and Kanto to support the recovery. This is simply beyond my comprehension. Some on Twitter call it “stu…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / December 6, 2011 / The Ministry of Health and Labor, one of whose mandates is to protect consumers, quoted from Asahi Shinbun (12/6/2011), in a typical bureaucratic convolution: ?????????????????????…
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