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Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Avoid Japan at your own risk

Japan strikes me as one of the world's safest places to visit. That statement may surprise, coming fairly soon after the fiercest earthquake in the country's recorded history, a ­massive tsunami and the planet's biggest nuclear crisis since the 1986 ­Chernobyl disaster. ­

Constant ­aftershocks and the spectre of ­radioactive material spewing across the globe from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant kept the world on edge for weeks, but workers eventually got the cooling systems back online. In the meantime, revolution, riots and the global financial crisis part deux eclipsed issues of caesium isotopes and iodine.   Read Full

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