Japan Fleeing to Okinawa FILE - In this March 16, 2011 file
photo, a woman holds her child at a shelter after being
evacuated from areas around the Fukushima nuclear facilities
damaged by last week's major earthquake and following tsunami in
Fukushima city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Experts and the
government say there have been no visible health effects from
the radioactive contamination from Fukushima Dai-ichi so far.
But they also warn that even low-dose radiation carries some
risk of cancer and other diseases, and exposure should be
avoided as much as possible, especially the intake of
contaminated food and water. Such risks are several times higher
for children and even higher for fetuses, and may not appear for
years. Okinawa has welcomed the people from Fukushima and other
northeastern prefectures (states) affected by the March 11,
2011, earthquake and tsunami that set off the nuclear disaster.
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