![]() Unlike the thousands who actually do live close enough to the Fukushima plant that they are already at risk or the hundreds of thousands who will be at risk if the efforts to contain the fallout fail, Tokyo-ites, I believe, fear institutions cracking under stress. The chef at the sushi shop where I had lunch on Friday complained that he couldn't sell all the fish he had stock-piled - people were going home early rather than stopping by for a couple of beers and a round of nigiri-zushi before heading for the station.īut this crisis threatens Tokyo's inhabitants in more subtle ways. ![]() ![]() And, although packaged foods have largely disappeared from convenience stores and some supermarkets, fresh food continues to be widely available. Radiation in Tokyo has not reached anything like harmful or even worrisome levels. Taggart Murphy is a professor in the MBA Program in International Business at the Tokyo campus of Tsukuba University. ![]() With the dead or missing toll rising daily and an ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan is struggling to recover from the earthquake and tsunami that hit the country nearly two weeks ago. A Japanese rescue worker stands amongst the debris in Iwate prefecture on Thursday. ![]()
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