Anxiety over safety of food, water grows in Japan
TOKYO — At a downtown grocery store, a line of anxious mothers cleaned the shelves of bottled water seven minutes after the doors opened. At an organic farm at the city's outskirts, a group tested spinach with a hand-held radiation detector. And at the prime minister's headquarters, the chief cabinet secretary announced that Japan is considering importing drinking water from abroad.
Source: Pioneer Press
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