Fukushima

March 11, 2011 DISASTER: looking back two years later

As the two-year anniversary of the March 11, 2011, disaster approaches, this is a look back at the first few days after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.

March 17, 2011

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Questioner: Well-off foreigners have been taking their families out of Tokyo. Do you think that that is justified, that if you had a family in Tokyo would you want to take them out if you were a foreigner?

Radiation Health Expert: I believe so.

Questioner: So that’s a yes?

Expert: Or maybe even better, we should leave Japan

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Ian Thomas Ash, filmmaker: So here is an expert on the effects of radiation on the human body telling us that basically…

Journalist: To best protect yourself it’s the best to leave.

Ash: To leave, but she’s saying not just to leave Tokyo, but if she could, leave Japan.

Journalist: Yes, I’m losing my words.