THE TOKYO EYE

Fukushima children yelping with delight in Okinawa. A shocking news is revealed. According to the study conducted on 1,000 Fukushima children, half of them are found to be exposed to radiation. At the last conference of Japan Pediatric Society conducted in Tokyo, Satoru Tashiro, a professor of Hiroshima University, stated that their exposure doesn't jeopardize their lives soon. The results will be sent to their parents next week. For this issue, Japanese Net-users posted aggressively thoughtless and heartless comments on an electric board, aiming their attack on the innocent children who has been exposed to radiation. Can they still have such thoughtless ideas as knowing the fact that the children resign themselves to living with the reality? Chernobyl had already experienced a nuclear disaster way before Fukushima did; a number of sad stories, therefore, are reported and they could happen to Japanese, especially those who live in the pre...

At 13:45, August 8, Japan's Radiation-Defense Project Team uncovered nuclear radiation level in the Upper House Member's Hall. A Greater-Tokyo's Map Greater-Tokyo's Radiation Level. Ibaraki: 210,000 Bq/m2 Tokyo: 240,000 Bq/m2 Chiba: 450,000 Bq/m2 Saitama: 920,000 Bq/m2 Reference: Chernobyl's Districts. The First District: 1,480,000 Bq/m2: No Trespassing. The Second District: 555,000 Bq/m2；Residents obligatorily move to other areas while the area is not allowed to be utilized as farmlands. The Third District: 185,000 Bq/m2; Heavily-polluted area. The Forth District: 37,000 Bq/m2; the district to block people from inessential pollution. Since March 11 in when the greatest earthquake and tsunami ever attacked Japan, the circumstance around the nation has worsened than ever before, including tax increase by financial deterioration, corporate downsizing, economic stagnation and cooped-up feelings. Not only does Japan rack with ...