Farmers from Fukushima Prefecture affected by the nuclear disaster held an open-air market Saturday in Tokyo amid the spread of unfounded rumors over the safety of their fresh produce.
"It is not justifiable that products from Fukushima, which haven't been banned from the market, are being affected" by the crisis, said JA Touzai Shirakawa's Masaichi Mimura, executive director of the agricultural cooperative in southern Fukushima.
In an attempt to prove the safety of their products, Mimura used a Geiger counter in front of the crowd and tested the buckets of rice, strawberries, cucumbers and tomatoes that were being sold.