We are returning to Wako-shi this Wednesday May 11th BUT we may leave again July 2nd.  We haven’t decided yet but Olga is considering suspending her research contract for one year while Japan stabilizes the nuclear reactors and comes to a realistic assessment of the dangers to small children of eating from the sea and from farms affected by the radioactive releases.  

We have been reading that nobody is changing their diet, partly out of amazing solidarity with the residents of Fukushima and partly out of false security promoted by TEPCO and their friends in government (I guess this is unfair, the government also wants to avoid panic).  But there’s a risk that twenty years from now Izzy and Zsófi could develop leukemia or other unimagined horror to their offspring because we needlessly fed them traces of weird sparkly isotopes.

Anyway we hope we will change our minds once we arrive in our beloved Japan.