Japan Times, April 22

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source : Japan Times .

千葉県香取市と多古町のホウレンソウ
Co-op sold banned spinach
A Tokyo-based cooperative has delivered spinach grown in the town of Tako, Chiba Prefecture, to consumers in three eastern prefectures despite a government ban on shipments due to concerns about radiation, the Chiba Prefectural Government says.

Some of the 74 lots of Tako-grown spinach - home-delivered by Pal System Consumers Cooperative Union to 70 households in Gunma, Saitama and Chiba prefectures - had already been consumed, it said.

A dealer in the town of Shibayama, which also has vegetable fields in Tako, shipped the spinach in question as part of 380 lots on April 10 and has said it did not know of the shipment ban, prompting the local government to issue a verbal warning, it said.
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On March 25, the Chiba Prefectural Government urged producers and dealers to voluntarily refrain from shipping spinach grown in Tako.
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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110422a3.html

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Biz chiefs: Don't halt nuke plants
AOMORI —
A group of six chambers of commerce and industry in Aomori Prefecture asked Tokyo Electric Power Co. and other entities Thursday to restart construction of nuclear facilities being clustered on the Shimokita Peninsula of the prefecture.
The local bodies in five municipalities on the peninsula said in the written requests that the regional economy has taken serious blows from halts to the construction of Tepco's Higashidori nuclear plant and other facilities amid the nuclear crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110422a8.html

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No-go zone trespassers face fines, arrest
The government declares the 20-km evacuation area around the radiation-spewing Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant a no-go zone, urging residents to abide by the order for their own safety or possibly face fines or detention.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110422a1.html


Leaks into sea 20,000 times over safe limit
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says radioactive substances that leaked into the sea from its crisis-hit nuclear plant over six days from April 1 totaled an estimated 5,000 terabecquerels, 20,000 times more than the annual allowable limit for the plant.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110422a2.html


New entity to help Tepco pay damages
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110422a5.html

Utility: enough summer power
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110422a6.html


Loss-hit Ishinomaki school opens
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110422a7.html

Small amounts of iodine found in breast milk
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110422b1.html


Giving voice to trauma-hit victims
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110422f1.html

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Sumatran's poem on '04 tsunami resonates
Syafwina came to Japan 12 years ago

The waters "washed away all of our dreams, destroyed our home and took us and our children away to a different world," she continued as the evacuees silently nodded or shed tears.

Her poem ended with the line: "If you will forgive me, I will stay as strong as before. . . . Goodbye my family. Goodbye my friends. Goodbye my loved ones. You will always live in my prayers and memories. Forever."

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110422f2.html

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Silver lining in sight for makers of solar panels
MARIKO YASU and MAKI SHIRAKI
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20110422n1.html


Tepco's road map
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20110422a1.html


Post-disaster cooperation
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ed20110422a2.html


Nuclear film festival marks 25 years since Chernobyl disaster
MARK SCHILLING
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/ff20110422a4.html


Children's voices soothe Iwate survivors
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fm20110422a1.html


Orchestra made homeless by quake
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/fm20110422a2.html


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