Japan Times, April 12

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High radiation well past no-go zone: Greenpeace
JUN HONGO

Radiology experts from Greenpeace urged the government to revise their evacuation protocol Monday after they found high levels of radiation around the greater Fukushima area and in the region's fresh produce.

A team of radiologists and safety advisers of the nongovernmental organization said a survey conducted from April 4 through Sunday detected radiation levels of 4 microsieverts per hour at a playground in the city of Fukushima. That would translate into a potential annual exposure of 5 millisieverts, Greenpeace expert Rianne Teule said, explaining that the level was the threshold for evacuation at Chernobyl.
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110412f2.html

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Classics scholar seeks to repay debt
MAMI MARUKO

When the earthquake and tsunami hit the northeast on March 11, Robert Campbell, an Irish-American scholar of Edo Period to early Meiji Era literature, was in Tokyo.

... said he felt like he was in a "depressed fog" after the quake. For a whole week, he was anxious and could not do any work. He just sat in front of the TV, listened to the radio and read newspapers.

His perception of the disaster changed, however, after he flew later in March to the United States to do a survey at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and hold a lecture at Harvard University.

"Talking to a lot of people gave me courage. People, unlike the way that the Western press (coverage of the catastrophe) has been introduced in Japan, were basically concerned about people (in Japan).

Many people were very impressed by the calmness and the 'hang-in-there' spirit that they felt from Japan."

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Month marked since twin disasters struck
Along the devastated Tohoku coast, people gather for remembrance ceremonies exactly a month after the historic temblor and tsunami killed up to 25,000 people and triggered a nuclear disaster.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110412a1.html


Aftershock kills one, halts pumps
A magnitude 7.0 aftershock jolts northeast Japan, halting cooling operations at damaged reactors in Fukushima and prompting the Meteorological Agency to warn of a huge level 7 quake striking in the near future.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110412a2.html


Evac zone to widen as exposure fears grow
Residents in some municipalities outside the 20-km evacuation zone will be told to leave the area in a month to avoid long-term radiation exposure.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110412a3.html


Experts urge external cooling system
KAZUAKI NAGATA
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110412a5.html


Edano denies flying family abroad
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110412a9.html
(this is one for the rumor mongers)


Offshore windmills weather crisis
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110412f3.html


Life away from home in shelters 'unbearable'
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110412f5.html

Small firms outside crises zone hurt
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110412a4.html


Reconstruction after the disaster
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20110412a1.html

'Judge not,' 'fly-jin' and saving electricity: views from readers
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fl20110412hs.html
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