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  • Actually in USA a lot of fruits are contaminated with 5-10 pesticides at least. :( no suprising

  • hey thanks for posting this video. Im going to tokyo on 8th for travel. may i ask you is it safe for me to go ? and if i get there wat stuff shouldnt i do? can i take shower or wash my face like seriously.. im am concerning...

  • Thank you for this video!

  • It's tragic that the Japanese government

    is not protecting its people. A more responsible

    government would immediately ban produce

    from any region contaminated by radiation until

    levels drop to a "safe" level (which will probably

    take years and ensure farmers are compensated and

    given financial aid to start new businesses elsewhere.

    And most imortant, the Japanese government should

    start importing food including fresh produce from

    around the world, as we do in Europe.

  • If we're talking about caesium contamination in food,

    (and I think caesium has a short half life) how long before

    food items i.e. vegetables, tea, meat, etc. become 'safe'

    to eat.....by European or American standards,

    Are we talking about a year, 2 years, or more?

    Or are there other radiocative contaminants other

    than caesium which could keep food contaminated

    for decades?

  • @HaggisMacfee There are two isotopes of Cesium:CS134 with a half life of 2 yrs, and CS137 with a half-life of 30 yrs.You typically need 10 half-lives for something to decay away to what is considered trace levels, so it will be 300 years until the Cesium is gone. In 30 years there will be 1/2 left, in 60 years 1/4, in 90 years 1/8. Waiting for levels to drop will exceed human lifespans. The uranium and other elements the gov. isn't testing for will be around for thousands of yrs.

  • Very informative video. Thankyou from Canada. Well done.

  • Wonder how Mie's situation is... Because I eat a lot both from the store and in restaurants. Don't really feel afraid though, but admittedly a bit umcomfortable...

  • Hi, thank you for your video. I am wondering what do you think about noodles coming from Gifu prefecture? I am a huge soba noodles fan, but i become kind of scared about food imported from japan ever since the disaster...

  • @akathetruthteller Given what Japan is expecting it's own people to eat and how radiation has been in everything from rice to beef to baby formula, my advice to everyone is to completely avoid Japanese food unless you live here and don't have a choice. The companies and government not remotely testing thoroughly nor being very honest. They NEVER test for strontium for example. Who radiation will strike with cancer in the future and who it won't is random. Don't gamble.

  • @AluminumStudios

    thank you. enough said!

  • @akathetruthteller (Reply 1) Look at the map of Japan and find out where Gifu is. It is in central Japan next to Nagano Prefecture. I would say it is safe to eat food from there. However, there were vegetables in Nagano prefecture that were contaminated to some degree. At this moment, I would only eat products that were made in the Kyushu area, some parts of Shikoku, Kagoshima, and Okinawa. However, you also have to think of where the ingredients come from. (continues)

  • @akathetruthteller (Reply 2) Soba flour (buckwheat flour) is used to make Soba noodles. Buckwheat itself is cultivated in various places throughout Japan. there is no guarantee that the Soba made in Gifu used buckwheat grown in nearby prefectures. You would have to contact the soba manufacturer to find out.

  • @marinabluesea

    thanks man,i am not going to name a company, but there is a US company that imports 100% buckwheat soba from gifu japan, i want to buy them so bad but i guess i won't thanks to you suggestion. not just that, also those wild yam soba from japan that i can't buy....

  • meant to say, u might evaluate the use of foreign dried milk and other food in case it gets worse but keep in mind the many other problems like DES and antibiotics used in ALL commercial meat/dairy. thanks for the efforts.

  • thank God i did not click on another " truther " and you should try to help ur adopted home and neighbors. i subbed you but when i see "donate" along with a video, i will talk negative. your education is showing while dutchsinse and the cloud clan are showing the lack of. u one smart african. i mean it sincerely. keep it up. i might even send some "yen".

  • That was a thoughtful and considerate video. Thank you. I suggest you join my Radiation Health Solutions group on Facebook. rhs.nodes.org

  • Where is the link he mentioned?

  • Japan is some areas very (or was) beautiful. I heard I don't know if it's true, but they refused to any foreign help. Possibly to cover up any real dangers or to hide the lack thereof to rid the country of bad items and foods. Japanese farm lands will be contaminated for 10-30 yrs or more long term it will kill the people and deform those to come. Japanese immigrants will start to show up around the world as they look to start over. Great video, Godspeed and good luck!!

  • Your video is quite enlightening and honest, I've been looking for something like this for a while now; thank you for sharing. I have a question, though, as a college student thinking of studying abroad in Kyouto. Would you recommend such an endeavor? And do you also, as someone living in Japan, have concerns for your own health? Ground radiation doesn't seem to be a threat anymore (checking maps), but one can't escape eating the food of the country, where fish and meat are concerned.

  • @chasingsunbunnies Feel free to send me a message if you want to discuss this since comment space is are limited.But basically I AM afraid for my health because there is SO much contamination in a wide variety of food. Also, Osaka just agreed to burn radioactive tsunami debris as did Tokyo and other areas, so there is a serious threat of increasing airborne contamination all over Japan. I don't recommend anyone come here and those without roots here should consider leaving.

  • thank you for doing this project man. Us, folks in USA are interested in this stuff...

  • I almost thought a fight for half-priced bento would break out anytime

  • thx mang 

  • Thank you, William. As a foreigner living in Tokyo, your work is of greatest help for me. All the best! Alex

  • 400,000 cans of radioactive milk powder was sneaked by a unscrupulous Japanese manufacturing company into the Hong Kong market before it was detected by the local hygiene department this week. The brandname is MEIJI. Watch out your food that are labelled Japs, or you may end up with deformed babies in the future.

  • I appreciate your efforts.

  • Hi,

    Will your geiger counter show any reading if placed on the food product?

    If it does detect, wouldn't that be the surest way to check your food?

  • @waterscapepro77 It's quite challenging to test food with a Geiger counter.It's hard to explain briefly, but basically contaminated food is too close to background level to get a good reading on easily with a typical Geiger counter. One with a large "pancake" style Geiger-muller tube is needed as well as the ability to do long timed readings. My Geiger counters unfortunately aren't up to the task and I don't have a budget for one that is :-\ The Radalert Inspector is a good one

  • Fantastic investigative work.  I hope everyone in Japan has access to these videos.

  • An excellent video William,very informative,taking a calm approach to this terrible situation.Your steadfestness and obvious intelligence do you enormous credit.

  • 出だしがjuonみたい

  • @cardcaptors85 そうかも知れないけど、現在の日本はJuonより怖くなった。

  • You should do a Japanese version. Many Japanese people do not concern about the stuff you are talking. But because they are not told about by the country... You know that the media is quiet.. (now the Fukushima Rice Problem is out, and they have to talk about that) I even would help you to translate, but watching your videos, your Japanese might be very good :)

  • Thank you for this video. Lots of information. I cannot help thinking that a government that would allow building a nuclear power plant in such an unsafe area, may also lie about nuclear safety. I also worry that labels may be misleading, and also may be a source of untruth. (Geiger counter) never leave home without it.

  • William, thank you. My father studied in Japan in the early 60's and has many old friends he has kept in touch with. It has been our dream to let him see them again and how Japan has changed. Post Fukushima we are trying to learn as much as we can. We would only visit Osaka, Kyoto or more southern regions but were considering visiting one place in Nagano Prefecture. Eating safe food does concern us greatly. Should we consider not going through with this trip at all, given your findings?

  • @KahnBB6 I'm not an expert so please don't consider my opinion as advice. But if someone has a meaningful reason such as reuniting with friends or family, then I think it's reasonable to come for a few weeks. The big danger is to those living here long term. I'd recommend avoiding Tokyo on up and seafood as the seas have not been studied well and fisherman have been dodging testing by docking at far away ports :-\ I would suggest that people who just want to vacation avoid Japan however.

  • @AluminumStudios All the same, thank you William. I had visited once myself in 2005 for only ten days and considered that to be quite short. Previously the longest we had discussed is visiting for two weeks. It's definitely for my father to reunite with his old school colleagues, all of whom are not getting any younger, but if it were not for that with the current situation I don't think we'd be discussing it. We may or may not. We're just trying to understand how much exposure we will have.

  • espically after they dump tons of radiation into the ocean

  • bioaccumulation sucks. Especially with seafood. The plankton gets radioactive, then something eats thousands of plankton, then something bigger eats thousands of those guys, and so on. try to get food from as low in the food chain as possible.

  • Thank you for producing these informative videos.

  • Why not just move out of Japan and let the Japanese rot and die of cancer by themselves? It's not your country anyway.

  • @stephentsang2000 Because life isn't that easy and there are people in my life who I am willing to take risks for.

  • @stephentsang2000 It's selfish fucks like you that will end this world.

  • @stephentsang2000 What an ignorant comment!

  • @voguifly Apparently, you think you are "less ignorant"~ God bless you~

  • Have you thought about going to the Market with a geiger counter?

  • @VideoExpostulations I wish it were that easy, but it's actually really hard to measure radiation in food with a normal tube based Geiger counter like I have. I keep meaning to do a video about it. Basically given the size of a tube, the sensitivity of a Geiger counter, and the geometry of radiation, an apple for example with 40 becquerels. of contamination would only register a few extra counts in a minute on a Geiger counter. This is difficult to distinguish from background radiation.

  • Pretty interesting video! Thank you for the information. I have a 2 years old daughter in Tokyo and I'm pretty worry about food and life in this city. I was drinking Yemon cha because I thought it was from Kyoto... Oh fool of me! It's better to abandon this country I think... I' ll be following your videos, arigatou!

  • As a long-term foreign resident of Tokyo, I would like to thank you for your video. I return to my hometown in Oz twice a year, and used to take Japanese green tea & seaweed as gifts. I used to tell everyone that the Japanese diet is the healthiest in the world. But since 311/Fukushima, this has been turned on its head. Nobody wants my green tea gifts back home. I've stopped drinking green tea myself. Anyway, please keep up the good work. And in return, some advice: import some spirulina.

  • It seems like you shopped in an Aeon owned Max-Valu or similar grocery store. I wish I had a local friend like you in Yamanashi like me.

    Its hard to talk with fellow expatriates like myself about radioactive fallout. Many around here are hyper-sensitive to anything hinting a that the Japanese government isn't protecting its citizens when it comes to random testing and national set limits on iodine and cesium.

    Please keep up the good work. My Japanese wife and I really appreciate it.

  • @upsidedownfuji Yeah, I can't understand how or why it's like this, but NO ONE will talk about it and I even get eyes rolled at me and such from other foreigners for mentioning it or commenting if I avoid a particular food. If I believed in conspiracy stuff at all I'd be tempted to say say there are mind-control drugs in the water. Feel free to send me a message via youtube if you want to talk about it further.

  • @AluminumStudios research agenda 21 Law under the U.n. it is a fact not a theory. :)

  • I wish someone would actually explain what a becquerel is.

  • @jezzmoto Please watch my video "Becquerels and Japan's changing 'safety' standards" - watch?v=oc6FPIK1VaY I explain what it is in easy to understand terms there :-)

  • If that is the mindfield of shopping I can only imagine what it is like dining out.

  • For those interested, along with ENE News & Ex-Skf blogspot another good source for news is - fukushimaupdate . com

  • wow, this is just amazing.. doesn't it mean that Japan in now into collective suicide, involuntarily and yet knowingly...?

  • Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for your diligence in reporting. I have heard of bits and pieces of claims of contamination in milk on the west coast of the US. I am asian here in Az and shop the asian markets so great video. Thank you. On a side note are you and the Japanese people aware of the Nov. 8th possible impact of YU55 in the NE Pacific rim??? With its size & mass(1300ft ) and within our lunar orbit speculation says Earth gravity will pull it in. NASA, FEMA & Nat'l Guard r on alert...

  • Your one of the unsung heroes. Great work in this research. All the best.

  • keep up the good work will, its important, especially for those in japan.

  • At some point it won't matter if the food is from as far south as Kagoshima. There is no safe part of the turd to eat from. I am sorry for the Japanese people.

  • @maskedavenger777 That is sadly becoming true with idiots continuing to sell radioactive garden mulch, radioactive manure based fertilizer, burning radioactive tsunami debris all over Japan and such. There are MANY man-made ways that contamination will be and is being spread to what was uncontaminated areas.

  • @AluminumStudios I am a rather callused middle aged male, who has seen a lot. If I were a sensitive young woman, I would be in tears for all of you. As it is I have creepy nightmares in my sleep as if I was watching a horror movie. I hope you can get the hell out of there.

  • By the way here is a very important blog post on the situation with beer in Japan ,

    survivaljapan.wordpress (dot com)

  • @LondonLanguageLounge That is good information, thanks.  Unfortunately a large amount of drinking in Japanese culture happens in the form of 飲み会 (drinking parties) with friends or co-workers at restaurants or bars. Typically you get whatever beer is on tap without a choice. So even if you know, in a majority of beer drinking situations (which are often outside the home), it's difficult to protect yourself :-\

  • @AluminumStudios Thanks yeah thats a good point, its like being in a war and trying not to get shot at the moment . I am also very wary of convenience store food, most of their food is from east japan... by the way where in kyushu are you living?

  • Dood, great work...good video and i too have been going through the same stuff having to check every fucking label in the supermarket on food i buy, its tiring and soul destroying... here in Kyushu its not bad but its all in the food chain now.... i steer clear of seafood, milk and youghurt etc.. .. anyway keep up the good work

  • All I can say is...damn

  • great video..

    but you are way too much of a gentlemen and way too trusting..

    the government figures are fake..

    simple reason mass panic and global economic melt down.

    japan is a yakuza run mafia state paying huge protection monies to the usa.

    the people in the know are buying time so they can complete the liquidation of asset investments.

    smoke and mirrors and population suppression is what it is about the tragic part being the japanese peoples sheepish belief in the government.

  • @antiochus66 I am not trusting. I know that 1)farmers are not supplying truly honest samples (ie. mixing old rice and new, etc), 2)with RANDOM sampling undesirable results can be thrown out and no one will ever know of them, 3)with any scientific test it is easy to manipulate the results, 4)more and more fact-based accounts of the gov. having withheld radiation data are coming out. However,I have no evidence of #1, 2, or #3 that I can present. I stick to the facts I have and they are bad enough!

  • Excellent research. Thanks for taking so much time to bring out such helpful info, specially for our japanese brothers. <3

  • Just another note I fear the imports from Japan too. I frequent Asian Supermarkets and since the Fukushima disaster I always look for food products that are reaching the end of there shelf life because they could be the ones shipped out before the disaster. Another thing I know a lot of products are bulk shipped and repackaged at other facilities how do we know there radiation levels and the particular contaminates during the second processing. I want to scream now I am so far away too.

  • Get the hell out of Japan now say goodbye to your relatives , neighbors , and take shelter in South America. for now. I am going to have to leave the US as well to avoid the continuing radioactive fallout reaching us from across the pacific. I don;t have any good advice other than that. I used to be stationed in Misawa years ago and went from Tokyo to Aomori ken on the Bullet train I wish you all well and goodluck. Just find a way to leave before the SHTF,

  • At some point, you will have to get out of that country as your choices for radiation free-food runs out.

  • thanks for sharing!

  • I'd be completely okay with eating anything marked in blue or green on his list. Instead of throwing it away send it to me!

  • amtc.jp is offline on oct 24th 2011

  • @kankenai I believe you mistyped it, it is atmc.jp (you typec amtc.jp - with the m and the t switched) I just checked and it is on-line.

  • @AluminumStudios your right, my bad.

  • Thank for doing this video. I just threw away half a fridge of food in Tokyo. Im left with Water from France and Broccoli from Thailand (hopefully we can still get that despite the floods). Though I was on a weight loss plan, most of the foods were from affected areas, which I volunteered in. I think it is time to re-evaluate living in Japan, (again). I am editing a a documentary about how the government handled the disaster from peoples stories. Its such a shame. and Shameful.

  • I feel bad for you and everyone living in Japan. I was in Japan for a few months and left after 3/11. Even though I wasn't anywhere near the reactors I knew food contamination would be a serious problem. I remember hearing about cows/pigs/chickens from Fukushima being 'saved' and sent to other parts of the country. What I fail to understand is why the vast majority of Japanese people are complacent and not really doing anything about this terrible situation Don't the politicians have to eat too?

  • Good investigative work William. The whole thing is one big quagmire. I just wish the authorities would be honest. To be honest I'm not sure really what to say about all this anymore. I am speechless.

  • @AustralianCannonball It's ridiculous and getting more dangerous for the people living here by the day because of choices being made by the government. BTW, as I type this I'm eating Australian TimTam that I bought at an import shop because I am trying to purge as much domestic food as I can from my diet. And that really sucks because Japan has (had) awesome food and it's like living in prison to be so restricted ...

  • I feel bad for everyone in Japan trying to be safe. Mushrooms and berries were the most toxic after Chernobyl as well. I have been afraid to buy Japanese nori seaweed since from our local markets. If I were in Japan I'd go to Costco. I looked on the Costco Japan site, it looks like they carry many imported foods. I'm not sure if there is one near you. Unfortunately the one in Machida City was badly damaged and is still closed.

  • most EPIC food shopping EVAR

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  • @picturestreams ....cognitive dissonance,is what will happen....the mind will protect the sanity of the people by blocking uncomfortable stimuli.....most will say things like "we all die sooner or later anyway"...or other anecdotal replies that help them to stay "sane"

  • This is really our planet.I think everybody starts out with one.We can just get another one right?

  • Something is strange?

    My posts have disappeared off several channels right after I posted them.

    Is this information being censored??

    See picture readings here:

    imageshack.us/g/820/retardocor­n91211.png

    POST YOUR REPORTS HERE:

    enenews.com/post-radiation-mon­itoring-data

  • @JTekton I don't know about about other channels, but I just woke up and saw your comments here OK. The image link you provided is broken though. Perhaps some people didn't like links in their comments?

  • Thank you, well done, Each passing day it gets worse, We think about the Japanese people each day and wish them safe passage to new lands to start a new life that are not as hopeless as Japans radiation problems !

  • I live in Osaka and never buy any food grown to the East of Osaka Prefecture.

    Those who live in Japan, you can still buy rice from last year's harvest on the internet. I heard a story of a woman who had bought 600 kgs. of last year's rice.

  • excellent report , i really admire your calm and clear presentation showing all of us who are so concerned about what is happening inside japan but i would listen to your instinct and leave if you can . take note rest of world ! your government will do the same to you

  • Thank you for this video. Japan Gov is covering up the situation.

    Fukushima rice is being mixed with rice from other prefectures.

    Meat is not being measured properly.

    Random sampling is a joke with hot spot issues in food security.

    Also, most of their measurement equipment do not measure neutron emissions from Uranium 235.

    So yes, they can say "It's all been measured", without really lying.

    Sad. Really sad.

    I was planning to visit Tokyo in 2012. No more.

  • Why aren't they testing for Uranium and Plutonium isotopes?

  • @cosabio I really want to know that too. The officials arrogantly state that heavy nuclides like Uranium couldn't fly far but that is dead wrong. I think if they tested (or released results ,they probably have tested already), that they would be forced to admit how bad this is.

  • @AluminumStudios Ha! Like heavy metals can't be vaporized at temperatures sufficient to melt Uranium. And I guess they'll just settle to the bottom of the ocean, just like all salt does. So don't worry, go back to work. Fukushima will not happen again. Especially not anytime soon. Not! (I think we're going to have to start taking the hard-line with these idiots.) I truly appreciate your composure and decorum, but I'm really starting to wonder if sterner tones and actions are justified.

  • @cosabio Because they knowhathey'll find will cause worry if not outright panic. The Japanese people need a French style revolution over their leaders handling of this situation. From what I have heard from Arnie Gundersen and Will ... this isn't incompetence, ... it's criminal.

  • looks like the Japanese people are unknowingly participating in the largest radiological experiment in human history. I'm still not sure why you are still living there....

  • do they have those nuclear power plants under control now?

  • @misterbig290 No disrespect to you, but this question is a PERFECT example of the media black-out. The answer is there is no control. The cores melted out of the reactors and down into the ground. The reactor buildings are so radioactive the humans can't go into parts of them and just today a robot they sent in malfunctioned and was lost (possibly from the high radiation.) It is a hell on Earth like humans have never experienced, yet the gov. talks like it's fine and the media is silent.

  • @AluminumStudios oh i know brother..noone talkes about it on the news..so there is more then one reaxtor melted down?if thats the case the whole dame world is gonna be polluted.cant they cover them with lead and cement...the fact that they are in the ground is the worst case scenario.

  • @misterbig290 Three reactors melted down and melted-through their pressure vessels. Three reactor buildings also exploded from gasses inside the reactors sending unimaginable amounts of radioactive contamination into the environment. They can't be buried because they are by the sea and it will all go into the water if buried and left. Please read ex-skf.blogspot [dot] com, enenews [dot] com, or any of the other sites they link to in order to see what is going on.

  • @AluminumStudios thankyou i will look at the blog..so how is this supposed to ever be cleaned up or is this impossible..of these 3 reastors are melted down into the earth isnt it gonna make japan unihabitable?im asking because i care..i can see u do to.thankyou for your fabulous videos

  • @AluminumStudios "Hell on Earth" Apt. Very apt. Thank you for speaking out on this. At some point other nations will be moved to openly intervene. I'm very concerned that the vested Japanese interests will also cover up the inevitable effects of this catastrophe- and eating.... "nuclear waste". :-| Thank you again.

  • Thanks, another good Doco..

  • very informative, thanks

  • A+

    I love your videos.

    please keep up the fantastic work.

    You answer so many questions I have with your videos.

    I just wish there would be more people doing videos like yours.

    And also that you would get the veiw that you deserve.

    It makes me so angry how poorly the japanese goverment is dealing with this nuclear crisis.

    My believe is that this is the worst disaster in human history that is still on going, and so many people think its just some small accident that happend in Mars.

  • Another excellent and informative video William! I also think the UN / IAEA should compensate the farmers due to their promotion of nuclear energy, but then they deny that the health effects even exist or matter.

  • great video... However, when referencing "unaffected" areas, keep in mind that TEPCO and the government is trucking highly radioactive waste all over Japan and burning it.

    watch?v=WM0wAitmFQU&feature=mf­u_in_order&list=UL

  • @MsMilkytheclown Good point! The government is trying to ensure that the whole country is affected equally. I'm keeping an eye on readings from my area and if they start going up I'm going to go ape sh*t.

  • @AluminumStudios, speaking of the 'widespreading' theory, check out a lot of strange radiation spikes all around Japan months after the spring's worst events:

    sendung.de/japan-radiation-ope­n-data/dashboard/

  • Please buy these products,need to protect yourself.

    1. Most of the clean-up at Chernobyl was accomplished with Bentonite Clay. The Marshall Islands have been repeatedly “dusted” with Calcium Bentonite Clay...comes in liquid

    2. Reducing the 137Cs-load in the organism of "Chernobyl" children with apple-pectin.

    Belrad Institute of Radiation Safety

    3. Calcium protects differentiating neuroblastoma cells during 50 Hz electromagnetic radiation.

    Please spread what you have found through Japan.

  • @rpur441044 I have heard of the studies of how Calcium and Magnesium helps prevent Uranium and Plutonium from binding to DNA and have been taking a multivitamin every day as it can't hurt. I've also been eating banana's and Potatoes to make sure my body has enough Potassium in hopes of reducing Cesium absorption by even a tiny percent.

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