Last week, the Journal of Commerce reported that:
Japanese government officials and shipping industry representatives will meet Friday in a bid to step up their fight against what they call “harmful rumors” about radiation.
The “liaison conference,” to be held in Yokohama City, adjacent to Tokyo, will discuss ways to reduce the impact on shipping and aviation of fears about the level of danger posed by the heavily damaged Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism said.
JSA’s chairman and chairman of NYK Line, Koji Miyahara, also said at a press conference on March 23, “If harmful rumors spread to liquefied natural gas tankers, it would hamper reconstruction assistance and have a great adverse impact on the Japanese economy.”