More and more nations advising citizens to leave Japan
A Growing number of countries are advising their citizens to leave Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated parts of the country and damaged nuclear reactors.
Many businesses are also relocating employees.
Australia was the latest country to put out an advisory.
Wednesday, the Department of Foreign affairs and trade
recommended that Australians who don't need to be in Japan leave.
The agency said the advice had nothing to do with the threat of nuclear
contamination.
"We are providing this advice because of the continuing disruption to major
infrastructure, its impact on the welfare of people on the ground and continuing aftershocks," the notice said.
Concerns about radiation were at the forefront of other countries' worries. Surging radiation levels forced Japan to order emergency workers to temporarily withdraw from its crippled Fukushima Dai-ici nuclear plant Wednesday.
France urged its citizens with no reason to stay in Tokyo to return to France or head to southern Japan. end quote from above article.
I think that the infrastructure problems caused by lack of electricity 24 hours a day in most places in Japan coupled with difficulties in distributing food and water and other necessities to stricken areas as well as worries about increasing radiation throughout Japan creates an atmosphere of de facto isolation for Japan until things begin to settle down to where people of all nations feel safer in both going to Japan and buying things (anything) from Japan and feel confident that it won't be unnecessarily radiated. It is not just food that one worries about, literally anything left in the open can gather radioactive dust and particles upon it. So, this is a very REAL public relations nightmare for Japan and one it really doesn't need on top of everything else right now. Even buying a car or truck made in Japan suddenly might be suspect until this whole thing somehow gets under control in some real way.
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