kari saito was living in fukushima city with her husband and two young children when the government ordered everyone inside after the explosions at fukushima daiichi. how worried were you? >> translator: enough to make me raisey. i used my cell phone to search the internet for news. i kept searching. fukushima, radiation, i kept searching. it nearly drove me crazy. >> after they were allowed outside she continued worrying about the radiation. continued worrying about her children. did your husband tell you that it was safe to be in the city? >> translator: he didn't tell me it was safe but i think he believed i was overreacting. my youngest son had blood in his urine and stool. he kept catching colds and had a cough. but when i took ethical a doctor he told me there was no link to radiation. all the doctors there said that. >> reporter: when her husband ignored her fears and refused to leave fukushima the strain was unbearable. she filed for divorce. it's a kind of marital discord so common these days the japanese have a name for it, nuclear divorce. >> translator: i felt like if i stayed w

. >> reporter: it took saito five years of trials to develop a kind of nursing care food that looks just like real fish. >> translator: he starts by first mashing the fish, then forming the paste into filet chips. to make sure the fish look right, the molds had to be exactly the right shape. he got them made by a company that creates mannequins, using real slices of fish for the molds. the individual scales have been carefully reproduced. to give the fish exactly the right color, this machine is used. it's a printer designed especially for food, using food coloring to reproduce the pattern of the scales. >> reporter: for elderly people, eating is one of the great joys. i came up with these foods because i want people to be able to experience this pleasure right up until the end of their lives. >> reporter: as japan's population ages, the market for nursing care food will continue to grow. and so will these edible innovations. >>> people across japan are shivering their way through the end of the holiday weekend. a high pressure system is pushing cold air toward the country, slamming it i

been done and the only study that i do know from east man chemicals msds sheet shows that there are saitoblood cells which is actually a scary fact. when that's the only thing that we know that has been shown as a human effect. >> kirk, let me ask you this. if this had happened in a major metropolitan area like no, city or los angeles, do you think the attention would still be on this issue you versus it being in west virginia? >> of course. it's a very -- the problems that we have down here in west virginia with regulation and epa standards go back through the history of west virginia for a long, long time. and it's a double-edged sword down here where more regulation equals less jobs and less jobs equals less money. and in a state that is already at the bottom of the list when it comes to the wealthiest states, that becomes a real problem when you start discussing these kind of things. >> kirk, i can tell you "america tonight" is going to stay on top of the story, thank you so much for sharing the very latest for us from west virginia tonight. >> thank you very much, sir, you have a gre