Toshio Watanabe, a rice farmer in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture. More than 11 years after the nuclear disaster, farmers like Watanabe and the public sector in the prefecture still continue to struggle with lingering reverberations of the effects of negative publicity due to radiation fears.
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People drive a hard bargain against rice from Fukushima Prefecture, which they buy only at lower prices than products of other prefectures, even for the same quality and taste.
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sakurasuki
Now those farmer and fisherman need to strugle from government plan that add more negative publicity to agriculture and fisheries product from that region.
https://www.science.org/content/article/japan-plans-release-fukushima-s-contaminated-water-ocean
Mocheake
Can you blame them? The fears are justifiable.
smithinjapan
Well, Toshio, thank your local government, the central government, and TEPCO, and stop complaining. You're lucky it's being sold and likely forced into school lunches at all.
Yrral
This rice probably got high concentration of radiative cesium
TrafficCone
More radiation in a potato chip