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In parts of Tochigi, more than 50 centimeters (1.6 feet) of rain fell in 24 hours, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported.
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Elevated levels of radioactive iodine have also been found in neighboring prefectures of Tochigi, Gunma, Niigata, Chiba and Saitama.
FORBES: Radiation Found in Food and Water in Japan [Updated]
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Nissan has idled production at the Tochigi and Iwaki plants until Friday.
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Akio Fukuda won in Tochigi on a similar platform.
ECONOMIST: Japan
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Food production in the most contaminated regions, the researchers write, is likely to be "severely impaired", and that Fukishima's neighbouring regions, such as, Iwate, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Tochigi, Ibaraki, and Chiba are likely to also be affected.
BBC: Fukushima fallout fears over Japan farms
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But lately Japan has a few well-publicized reasons to worry about its own young people: a 14-year-old Kobe boy's gruesome murder of a younger child, a 13-year-old Tochigi boy's fatal knifing of a teacher, an upsurge of teenage theft and prostitution, an epidemic of teen rudeness on trains and streets, an explosion of outlandish clothing, tattooing and body-piercing.
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