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Evacuees from Kawauchi village undergo screening test for signs of nuclear radiation after returning from inside restricted zone around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Tuesday, Jun. 07, 2011

Open quoteThe frustration was so serious that mutual trust between the U.S. and Japan, I think, was endangered.Close quote

  • AKIHISA NAGASHIMA,
  • a lawmaker in Japan's Democratic Party, on how differing views over the severity of Japan's nuclear disaster created tense relations between the two countries; Tokyo disclosed on Monday that the accident was more severe than it had admitted
Photo: REUTERS / Issei Kato | Source: Wall Street Journal