Our judgment that radiation levels were 'non problematic,' and the way we addressed the issue immediately after the outbreak of the nuclear disaster caused anxiety among many young households who have children. Because of this, people from other cities stopped moving into Kashiwa.
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Kashiwa Mayor Hiroyasu Akiyama, attributing the population decline to the municipal government’s failure to address people’s anxieties and frustrations over radiation. (Mainichi Daily News)
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JapanGal
This guy deserves a honorary PHd.
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sillygirl
DUH
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suzukakid
And it took him almost a year to come up with that one all on his own! I'm positive he didn't ride the short bus to school as a young boy.
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Farmboy
Umm....the central problem is the radiation, not people's anxieties.
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Newsman
Japanese people may be reluctant to directly voice their opinions, but they are awfully good at voting with their feet.
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