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A group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station.
“Even if I were exposed to radiation, cancer could take 20 or 30 years or longer to develop. Therefore us older ones have less chance of getting cancer.”
To cope with the disaster Japan has raised the radiation exposure limit for emergency workers from 100 millisieverts to 250 millisieverts.
“To take that step you need a lot of guts, but I hope it will be a great experience. Most Japanese want to help out any way they can.”
Due to high sulfur levels, inhabitants of the Izu Islands had to wear gas masks to survive. What results? Some of the scariest wedding photos ever
(via tryphena)
Japan Relief Poster (by Blaine Fontana)
The library of the Sendai Mediatheque after the earthquake in Japan last month.
New video filmed by an amateur photographer of the large tsunami that swept through Japan one month ago. In the film, villagers from an unknown town in the Miyagi Prefecture could be seen running for their lives away from a large wave of water, cars and homes. [Amateur video]
Japanese nuclear agency “provisionally” raises the threat level from a stricken power plant from 5 to 7, the most severe category.
Scariest tsunami footage released yet.
