Japanese government has worked on another information disclosure to resolve people’s free-floating anxiety. As traditional media, especially TV, many of which have been reporting on Fukushima nuclear plants fallout intensively and even people living outside of Fukushima are getting panic.
I went to buy some food with my daughter yesterday, an old gentleman behind us in the long line in a supermarket told me that I must let her wear mask, because TV had said that radioactive are flying in Tokyo… I don’t think TV news really told that, but I can easily guess that they race how sensational they can be. @FrankieBit told me a funny news that Italian experts measured radiation levels in Rome and Tokyo, and Rome got higher number on that day.
There were some Geiger counter reports on the net provided by individuals and local governments, but their authority could be challenged. Now, Ministry of Educational, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(MEXT) is measuring radiation level at 47 prefectures and published it on the web.
Like a new English Twitter account to update crisis info, government’s IT usage becomes better now. They prepare mirror sites on Yahoo! Japan, Sakura Internet and WIDE Project, each of which has an English page or some English info.
To know how dangerous (or safe) the measured numbers are, students of Keio University translated an informational diagram to English [pdf].
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