Land

'I will completely destroy the land and demolish her pride'
Ezekiel 33:28

So my choice at the supermarket today was onions from Hokkaido or carrots from Nagasaki. As I have not yet purchased my own personal geiger counter (a must have fashion item in Japan these days), I was unable to acertain which was less radioactive, so went with the carrots, as my daughter is not a big onion fan anyway.

Dystopia, thy name is Nippon. If you would have told me in 2001 that I would be worrying about radiation poisoning when shopping, I would have said you'd been reading too much science fiction... but yesterday when I purchased a drink at 50% off, I peeled back the sticker to find the kanji 東京　-Tokyo- had been conveniently hidden. I threw it away.

Yet all the while outside the sunlight on the river, the clear water where fish are swimming, the clear blue sky. Everything looks perfect. The most upsetting thing about radiation is you can't see it, smell it, taste it. It is invisible. Just like God.