well, US has bases is OKI, I've got a buddy over there now. so I'd think she'd be safe, since the US and Australia are on good terms. (If something were to go down "military style" that is)

as for radiation, I can't say.

While you as a parent have every right to keep your child home and play the role as the ever present and controlling helicopter parent always hovering around, please keep in mind, the more you enforce your control over your child, the greater the break in rebellion that usually occurs in later teenage years.

Your personal beliefs, biases, paranoia can actually do more harm to your child than you think, when you're fully convinced that you are protecting them.

Let your child go. If you're really that fearful, purchase a personal dosimeter, or geiger counter if you have the funds for a geiger counter, but a dosimeter for under $100US from any online shop will do your child fine.

Read the instructions on the dosimeter, and ensure your child understands what they mean, then send them on their way with emergency funds to return immediately should the dosimeter show positive at at time.

Solved.

You get more radiation from natural sunlight every day than you'd likely get from visiting some ambiguous anywhere place in Japan.

Then again, for whatever reason, people have a tendency to really really really love panicking and making a bigger deal out of anything and everything imaginable, especially when doing so coincides with their own disposition and preconceptions about other things.

People love their lies, and love to be scared by the lies they choose to believe. Why else are doomsday cults and websites so popular?

why would anything happen. be happy for your daughter that she has a great opportunity to visit an historic and rich culture, be with her friends and have memories that she'll remember for the rest of her life.

on the dreams, they don't mean jack. i've had many, many dreams with pamela anderson, but i've never met her.

The food is what would worry me the most.

The way you are talking you will attending a hearing, where you may or may not be granted input on decisions on her life? If that is the case, then there is some reason you don't currently have that input. With that in mind there is no way you should introduce anything conspiracy related at the hearing or to any official. Japan being a nuclear wasteland screams conspiracy, despite the possible triths involved. Don't fight this battle.

I wouldnt unless i went with her... I watch too many movies like Taken... i wouldnt want to end up running across the globe killing everybody on my quest to find my daughter... noooooope

Originally posted by yourmaker
depends where shes going and for how long.

personally I wouldn't go unless it's Tokyo.

Personally I wouldn't go if it IS Tokyo. Well, unless you feel your insides are a bit under cooked and wish to rectify that, slowly, over the next couple decades. Radiation and all that. That part of Japan is dead, they just don't know it yet.

NOTE: I lived just outside of Tokyo for 10 years. It was great. You can't pay me enough to go back now.

Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I say let her go and have the time of her life. No one seems to want to go to Japan and for good reasons..so she ought to have an experience like few have had in recent decades. She ought to see a Japan without it being totally over-run with OTHER tourists at the same time.

Uh, wassup Doc? You say go, but ppl don't go for good reasons. Could those reasons be the radiation? Perhaps?

Funny thing happened the other day. I was trying to book a united flight to SE asia from the US. I used UAL's website. I saw a few flights that stop off in Tokyo, as usual, but a lot that didn't. I thought this was great because laying over in Tokyo was always such a waste of time and now, since it is radioactive there, I don't want to stop there.

So I book a ticket. Then I get my itinerary and at the bottom is an asterisk which points to small text that says....I stop over it Tokyo. But no where on the itinerary does it say that.

So I call UAL and they say it is because on my way there I don't change planes, just stop for a few hours and get back on. I called BS because on the way back they do the same thing but I DO change planes. So they tried a couple other excuses. I asked the lady to change my reservation to route around Tokyo and she was going to charge me a fee.

So, I asked if they were hiding the layover intentionally because people were afraid of the radiation and this way they won't know they are going there, and book a ticket like I did. She transferred me to a manager.

The manager was more than accommodating, dropped the fees, and routed me through Europe and Russia to get to SE asia.

Odd.