The New York Review of Books

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October 24th 2012

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“Japan is a country where the emperor is rarely seen naked.” Ian Buruma on official truth and falsehoods in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster.

Expect to Be Lied to in Japan: http://j.mp/RVeETp

Photo: Mourners in protective clothing at a cemetery inside the nuclear exclusion zone, Fukushima, Japan, 2012 (Dominic Nahr/Magnum Photos)

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“Japan is a country where the emperor is rarely seen naked.” Ian Buruma on official truth and falsehoods in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Expect to Be Lied to in Japan: http://j.mp/RVeETp Photo: Mourners in protective clothing at a cemetery inside the nuclear exclusion zone, Fukushima, Japan, 2012 (Dominic Nahr/Magnum Photos)

March 25th 2011

Japan’s Radiation Scare: The Good News and the Bad

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Jeremy Bernstein

A key, and fortunate, development in the unfolding disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been the discovery that the radioactivity that has traveled as far as Tokyo—and Colorado for that matter—mainly consists of an isotope of iodine-131. This may seem like an odd bit of good news but I will explain.

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