• To be let out: Children from Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, participate in a relay race Wednesday in the city of Kitashiobara, farther to the west. The event, organized by the track and field club at Nippon University's College of Engineering, was held because the kids from Koriyama, about 60 km west of the crippled nuclear plant, aren't permitted to play outside due to radiation. | KYODO
    To be let out: Children from Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, participate in a relay race Wednesday in the city of Kitashiobara, farther to the west. The event, organized by the track and field club at Nippon University's College of Engineering, was held because the kids from Koriyama, about 60 km west of the crippled nuclear plant, aren't permitted to play outside due to radiation. | KYODO

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NAHA, OKINAWA PREF. – The city of Naha, Okinawa, will cancel an event using snow from Aomori Prefecture amid concern that it might be tainted with radiation from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.

The 600 kg of snow carried to Naha from the Aomori town of Towada — roughly 350 km away from the crippled plant — was proved safe after Naha checked it for radiation, city officials said.

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