Fukushima mother weeps to reporter: I wish my daughters were never born — “I apologize to them for giving birth”

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NPR on Japan’s paranoid, guinea pigs (AUDIO)

MD: Infant deaths also up in B.C., Canada after Fukushima — Corroborates U.S. study (VIDEO)

WATCH: Nursery school opens 25km from Fukushima meltdowns (VIDEO)

WATCH: Nursery school opens 25km from Fukushima meltdowns (VIDEO)

NHK: Gov’t to check Fukushima kids for congenital abnormalities linked to radiation — “Rising public concern” about contamination

Japan author claims medical workers said malformed babies are being declared as stillbirths or miscarriages — Not included in statistics (VIDEO)

Japan author claims medical workers said malformed babies are being declared as stillbirths or miscarriages — Not included in statistics (VIDEO)

Japan refugees in New Zealand: Family’s health suffering — Diarrhea, chest problems, swollen glands — “Many of her friends and family back in Fukushima have similar symptoms”

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Report: Fukushima Safety Levels NOT Safe (VIDEO)

Top Radiation Expert: 50 Bq/kg in humans leads to irreversible lesions in vital organs — Then top UN official refutes effects of internal radiation (VIDEO)

Kyodo: Baby food maker ignored info on cesium contamination for weeks — Initially concluded “further investigation was unnecessary”

Gov’t Study: Radiation levels in Koriyama children exceed annual limit set by gov’t

Japan Teachers: Students being taught pro-nuclear propaganda — Told radiation risk is less than dying of old age (VIDEO)

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Tokyo mother holding baby: “I never thought milk would be affected” by Fukushima radiation (VIDEO)

Japan Times: OK for babies to drink radioactive milk… because adults have natural potassium-40 in body

SMH: Too late to flee Fukushima fallout? Refugees discuss bizarre rashes — Doctor talks of purple spots, concerned about Tokyo radiation

Bloomberg on Cesium Found in Baby Food: Made near Tokyo, in Saitama — First detected on Dec. 3 — Japan’s largest infant formula supplier recalling 400,000 cans

Local gov’t tests kids’ lunches: Tokyo nursery school serving milk with 18 Bq/kg of cesium — Over 160 times EPA limit — Milk industry protested testing

Kyodo: Number of births declined significantly in Fukushima and Tokyo between April and June

Gundersen: “I’m really concerned about the long-term health effects on people from Northern Japan” — Fukushima evacuation worse than Chernobyl (VIDEO)

Gundersen on Fukushima vs Chernobyl evacuations: I think Fukushima is worse — “I’m really concerned about the long-term health effects on people from Northern Japan” (VIDEO)

Local Tokyo official says “It became clear that radiation came further south than we thought, all the way to Tokyo”… while at nursery school with kids rolling in dirt and tasting it (AUDIO)