Another Blow to Tokyo

After the earthquake rated over 9.0 on the Richter scale hit Japan two weeks ago, the entire country was in shock, but then a tsunami came as a result of the earthquake, destroying anything and everything that it came in contact with, and destroying all the buildings and places and things that Japan had fortified through earthquake precautionary measures. Then, the nuclear reactors that were hit by the tsunami began to have some trouble, consisting of some explosions and a near-meltdown. As if Japan wasn't suffering enough, the country has been dealt yet another devastating blow. Juro Osawa and Hiroyuki Kachi detail the new story out of Tokyo in their Wall Street Journal articled titled "Tokyo Issues Warning on Water" on March 23, 2011. 

Tokyo officials said infants in Japan's capital shouldn't be given city tap water due to elevated radiation levels, as the country's nuclear crisis broadened into a public-health issue for its biggest city.

Some Tokyo tap water could represent a long-term health risk to infants, officials said Wednesday, after tests done earlier this week at three Tokyo water plants showed levels of radioactive iodine-131 at one plant exceeded the government's threshold for consumption by infants.

Because of the troubles with the nuclear reactors from the tsunami hit, Japan is now struggling mightily with issues concerning radiation. Along with the immensely elevated levels of exceptionally dangerous airborne radiation, radiation has now infiltrated the water supply of Tokyo and possibly other cities in Japan. Hopefully this is the end of an incredible wave of disasters hitting Japan and the country will be able to recover and reconstruct.