What about the radiation?!

For those who are worried about the radiation situation in Japan please click on this link American Embassy (Tokyo)   

to read an updated version of the American embassies assessment of traveling to Japan.

Tokyo is NOT going frantic due to a radiation scare! The pictures you see of people wearing white masks all over Tokyo is due to hay fever season, not as a guard from radiation. 40 % of the Japanese are affected by hay fever and it is not uncommon to see almost everyone in Tokyo during this time of year wearing a mask! It's sad to hear how foreign news services have been using scenes like this in order to hype up a story they merely want to report! 

 Tokyo is 250 km away from the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima. Mt. Fuji is another 130 km from Tokyo, all in all about 400 km away from the nuclear plant, a very safe distance away from any harm due to radiation!