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gtd · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 30

Hi everyone. I've been doing some research latelty trying to figure out where i can and can't go, and it seems like Japan could be a possibility. However there are some concerns i have regarding the nuclear power plant meltdown in Fukushima as a result of the tsunami earlier this year. Basically what i'm asking is, is it safe to live in Japan at this time? are some areas better than others? should i be concerned?

any input would be greatly appreciated!

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

Safety is relative. Japan also experiences frequent earthquakes and annual typhoons. You won't be able to avoid them very easily. As for radiation, I'd say that if you aren't posted around the Fukushima area where the damaged reactors are, you'll be as safe as the rest of us.

Yes, of course, people should be "concerned", but the best you can really do about natural disasters is learn what is needed to prepare for them. Register with the nearest embassy/consulate so that they have a listing of you and your fellow countrymen in case of emergency and need to tally a list of them or be a contact point for friends and relatives.

G Cthulhu · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:22 pm Post subject: Re: nuclear radiation?

Shonai Ben · Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Posts: 617

I've recently been to Fukushima city......everything's fine there......no concerns about radiation.......

Pitarou · Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 1116 Location: Narita, Japan

Stay away! All of Japan is a post-apoalyptic radioactive hellhole. You really wouldn't like it. Oh, and if you do happen to come, please don't apply for any jobs, especially not in the vicinity of Narita, Chiba. If you do, a curse will fall on you and your whole family. (Not that there are any jobs, anyhow. Nobody has time for English lessons, what with all the starvation and mutant zombie hordes and all that.)

Go somewhere nice and safe like ... I dunno' ... China instead.

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gtd · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 30

Mr_Monkey · Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 661 Location: Kyuuuuuushuuuuuuu

You'll find plenty of zombies in Japanese classrooms. Do you have the retrovirus? We might just be able to save some of them...

frankzjones · Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 1

I don't think the fallout from the nuclear radiation was an illusion:.

[img]http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/fo0318-radiation-plume.jpg[/img]

if you felt ill after it happened, it was probably real. Not just your imagination.

seklarwia · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:17 pm Post subject:

CarolinaBen · Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 78

I live in northern Tochigi prefecture, and all is well here. I believe I'm about 70km from the power plant.

However, the risk of dying from boredom is a real threat.

timothypfox · Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 492

See: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/radiation-levels.html?date=20111219

No worries... from this daily data you can see in tokyo an other areas away from the nuclear accident that hourly radiation levels are within normal levels. you wouldn't be exposed to anymore radiation than someone living in a big city in a America in a given year if you settled in Tokyo or Chiba...

G Cthulhu · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject:

Yup. The smog will get you long before Teh Radiationz does.

G Cthulhu · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:19 pm Post subject:

Tiger Beer · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 778 Location: Hong Kong

rxk22 · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 1629

Any plans on building a new electric plant? It's going to be summer again this year, you know. An electric plant does take a few years to get online. Wish they'd have started one early last summer.