“Generally, Japanese citizens have faith in the government, and we haven’t felt the need to have checks carried out by independent parties,” said [Kenji] Kusano, [director of the Fukushima Agricultural Technology Centre, in Koriyama, the government’s main screening site]….
The Tokyo 2020 organisers said promoting areas affected by the 2011 disaster remains a key goal.
“Supporting the area’s reconstruction efforts through the sourcing of its food and beverage products is one of our basic strategies; we are therefore seriously considering doing this..” 2020 spokesman Masa Takaya told AFP.
From Agence France-Presse
20 November 2019
For years, Japan’s government has sought to convince consumers that food from Fukushima is safe despite the nuclear disaster. But will it serve the region’s produce at the Tokyo Olympics?
It’s a thorny subject for the authorities. They pitched the Games in part as a chance to showcase the recovery of areas affected by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster.
Government officials tout strict checks on food from the region as evidence that the produce is completely safe, but it remains unclear whether athletes and sports teams from around the world will be convinced.
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