Post date: Mar 20, 2011 3:42:17 PM
CCTV BEIJING - Many people, both foreign and Japanese, have refused to take chances and begun to leave Tokyo on fear of radioactive fallout from the nuclear power plant crisis spawned by the March 11 devastating earthquake and tsunami it triggered.The Narita Airport in Tokyo was crowded with people.
One Japanese passenger said that he returned to Tokyo from France on a business trip two weeks ago and the earthquake struck happened in the following week. "So I am going back to France," he said.
Asked whether he worried about the situation, another passenger said: "Actually yes. Because there is big difference in the reports by Japanese and international media. So it's very difficult to get the right information. This is a problem."
A foreign passenger leaving Tokyo said: "Well I am not worried so much. The only thing that bothers me is all the different reports out there. Because everyday people seem to have different opinions about what's going on. So I think it is just the lack of knowing what is really going on that is frustrating. I'm just leaving because i go to school here and my school cancelled. Everyone has been told to leave so that's I'm doing."
When asked whether it is because of radiation fears that they are leaving Tokyo, another foreign passenger said: "No, because I have to go back to school on Monday."
Another foreign passenger said that he is leaving Tokyo to see his parents who are in the military.
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