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Japan: After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown
2013-02-24 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: Perhaps one day Aiko and Kenji Nomura will laugh about the Birthday Cake Incident. It happened last autumn. Aiko, a care worker from the city of Koriyama in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, was celebrating her 35th birthday. Her husband Kenji decided to surprise her. On the way home from his job at the post office, he picked up the biggest cake he could find. It was filled with whipped cream and decorated with pink roses. "I couldn't help myself," recalls Aiko. "Kenji had a huge smile on his face,...
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