Anxieties grow about radiation costs in Japan

[homasse]

Anxieties grow about radiation costs / No clear criteria, answers from TEPCO have municipalities fearful for budgets

A growing number of municipalities are demanding that Tokyo Electric Power Co. compensate them for costs related to the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant

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[perthro]

Their shipping alone has more than tripled in only a year. Actually... less than that, since I last had an import deal at the end of February. I paid more than three times for shipping this time than I did the last time. Where EMS used to cost me $75-80, it's now around $315 for the same weight. O.o And the items themselves* are worth maybe $40! How can I do business with this kind of expense to cover? If only I had friends living there who were coming to America. I'd pay them to pack their suitcases with stuff for me.

At least they no longer have the embargo running (last November) the way they did for anyone who isn't a major business. That was a bad idea.