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Tokyo residents are emptying store shelves of daily necessities and stocking up on gasoline as the risk of nuclear radiation leaks from a facility north of the Japanese capital escalated.
Seven & I Holdings Co., Japan’s biggest retailer, said its Ito-Yokado supermarkets are being emptied daily of necessities such as water, rice and batteries as soon as fresh supplies arrive. “Every day the stores provide a certain amount, but as soon as a shop opens, the products disappear,” Hirotake Henmi, a spokesman for Seven & I, said in a phone interview.
Workers Tuesday struggled to avert the risk of a meltdown at a crippled nuclear plant 135 miles north of Tokyo as Cabinet Chief Secretary Yukio Edano said radiation readings around the complex reached “a level that could harm people.” A blast and fire struck the Fukushima nuclear facility Tuesday, after two earlier explosions that followed the failure of cooling systems damaged by the March 11 earthquake, Japan’s strongest on record.
Masaru Sakamoto, a 49-year-old salesman for a food company in Tokyo, said he couldn’t buy gasoline over the weekend. “I went to more than 10 places on Saturday and Sunday and they were all sold out. Monday was no good, either.” He finally filled up his car at a Shell gas station in central Tokyo today.
Appeal for Calm
Stores in Tokyo and its suburbs on March 13 and 14 ordered about 10 times more water than usual, said Nobuo Saito, a spokesman for the government’s Consumer Affairs Agency. Food retailers on the same days sold about 9 times more chicken meat than they did before the March 11 earthquake, Saito said.
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Tokyo shoppers strip stores bare as nuclear risk sparks panic buying
By Shunichi Ozasa and Chisaki Watanabe, Bloomberg
http://www.vancouversun.com/business...625/story.html