Will the radiation in Japan cause less popularity to Japanese restaurant?

Question:

Will restaurants be affected heaps because of the circumstances in Japan at the moment?

I want to open a Japanese restaurant in the next 2-3 years but people kept telling me restaurant are being closed down or no one will eat from it.

A lot can be just exaggeration and obviously not everyone in the world will avoid eating Japanese food so what do you think?

Answer:

This incident has been marked by the holding back of information. Every day they admit to a little more, then a little more.

Radiation is increasing in foods produced in the U.S. now.

How many lies are people willing to swallow?

It proves again that you can't trust any industry to police itself. The Japanese nuclear regulatory people all have connections to nuclear power. The failed to follow the rules because they lusted after higher profits. Now that the results of their perfidy are plain to see, they should have the decency to take the traditional Japanese method of reclaiming their honor.

You notice that of the half dozen radioactive isotopes being pumped into the jet stream and into the sea, only iodine is ever mentioned. That is because it has a short half-life. The other materials will continue to poison us for years. Radiation poisoning is a cumulative thing. You can have a little exposure today, then everything id fine tomorrow. The maximum dosage is a lifetime total of intensity of radiation multiplied by time. A long exposure to low level radiation is the same as a shorter exposure to a higher level.

"Safe levels are determined by the LD-50, that dosage that is lethal to half the population. Excursion limits are generally a percentage of the LD-50, they are the intensities of radiation that may be harmless if the exposure is 4 hours or less in a lifetime. A one-time event. The radioactive material that has circled the globe is with us 24/7. The exposure continues for as long as the material is putting out radiation. So the iodine puts out radiation, after 8 days it puts out half as much then 8 days later half of that and so on. If it was radiating at one sixth of the acceptable excursion limit, you would receive enough radiation to make a marked reduction in your life span in two weeks. And after two weeks it is still producing 25% as much radiation as when it started.