"They have a giant warehouse so they have to pay rent, pay wages for warehouse employees and carry a huge amount of inventory at their own risk, because not every book is going to get sold, " says 7-Eleven Japan Vice Chairman Masaaki Kamata.
Minoru Kamata, a physician at Suwa Chuo Hospital in Nagano, said that officials belatedly discovered that contaminated pebbles had been used to make the foundation of apartment buildings that housed evacuees a fact revealed only because a teenager in the housing came from one of the few communities requiring children to wear dosimeters.