so yamada chose to pay for tests out of her own pocket. doctors run each person through what's called a whole body counter for two minutes. the machine detects whether the patient's body has absorbed any radioactive materials. the doctors send out the results by mail. >> we can't find out the results right away? >> i'm sorry, about a specialist has to look at them first. >> translator: i see. thank you. i know the nuclear reactors are not 100% safe. so i realize that our concerns won't be satisfied just by finding out the results of this test. >> reporter: the yamada family lived for about ten years in the town of tamaoka, within 10 kilometers of the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. they feared their home town was contaminated. they moved farther away to an apartment in iwaki city, shortly after the accident. yuuka spent a lot of time after the move visiting the school nurse. she complained of headaches, felt depressed. the counselor determined yuuka was suffering from psychological stress from the effects of living through the disaster. >

statement contradicts those of the former vice president hisashi mori and also former auditor hideo yamada, who told the committee that they had informed kikukawa of their accounting manipulations for years. olympus told reporters earlier this month that three former executives, including kikukawa, had been involved in the cover-up. the committee will continue its investigation into the matter to try to unravel the contradicting explanations by the three former executives. >>> a plaj or challenge in areas devastated by the march 11 disaster is how to dispose of the mass of debris. the amount estimated at 22 million tons, the equivalent of ten years of garbage normally produced in those areas. heavy chunks of concrete most difficult to deal with. can't be easily eliminated or recycled. in our weekly segment, the road ahead, we look at construction materials, using a rather unorthodox method. >> this professor from the university specializes in concrete engineering. he is trying to think of ways to use the big concrete chunks in rebuilding efforts. >> it's better to use everything that's ava

. >> reporter: the yamada family live in a town within 20 meters of the fukushima diiachi power plant. they fear their hometown was contaminated. they moved farther away to an apartment shortly after the accident. she spent a lot of time after the move visiting the school nurse. she complained of headaches, felt depressed. the counselor determined that she was suffering from psychological stress from the effects of living through the disaster. >> translator: when i hear talk in t classroom about the nuclear power plant i worry that people are avoiding me. so i want to find out the results as soon as possible. >> translator: we want her to live with the confidence that the accident did not affect her physically. >> reporter: doctors across the prefecture send in results every day. but they have not reported any incidents in which a patient has been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts. the maximum limit and health hazard. the doctor also analyze the test and mail her the results within a month. they hope that they'll finally find some peace of mind. nhk world, fukushima. >> hiroki sp

yamada, nhk world, geneva. >>> next, we go to bangkok to find out what's going on in the region. >> pakistan has accused nato-led forces of premeditated action in reference to saturday's deadly attack on pakistani military posts. a spokesman dismissed the position of nato secretary-general, that the strike was a tragic accident. afghanistan-based nato hoigs crossed the border and attacked pakistani military positions in the country's northwest on saturday. the assault killed 24 pakistani troops. a military spokesman said on monday that senior officials had quickly asked their nato counterparts to call a halt to the air strike. he said a nato ignored the plea and continued the attack for two hours. the spokesman said pakistan and afghanistan constantly share information on the locations of their border positions. he ratcheted up the criticism, saying that international forces knew the existence of the posts they assaulted. in cambodia, representatives from more than 150 countries are discussing ways to remove land mines that support people affected by them. the convention is taking place in a

nana yamada, nhk world, geneva. >>> now we turn to our special series, an indian's india. in the second edition, we meet a man with a dream. he wants to give children of the world access to technology through an ultra low cost tablet computer. nhk world has this world. >> it is often said india has too conflicting, one a leading it nation and the other in poverty. "newsline" asked the indian people what the true face of their country is. this is india's minister of human resource development. he says a key to ending poverty is to improve access to education. >> we are moving away from the colonial system of rote learning, which is what we inherited from the british, and moving towards more creative processes of learning for chirp. and there we have to use technology in a big way. so that's one thing that's happening that we are now thinking in terms of and in fact moving forward through the national knowledge network to connect about 6 or 800 universities in years to come, 31,000 colleges in years to come, let information and educational information flow throughout the uni

. >> nhk world's name yamada is in our studio in nagasaki. name, how did you feel while reporting on this story? >> i saw the expressions on the students face as they listened to fukahori, he expresses many of the hopes of those who survived atomic bombs, to rid the world of nuclear weapons. still, there may be a ways to go. a creators of the u.n. exhibit felt a photograph of an atomic bomb survivor, who had been badly burned, would shock viewers too much. they asked that it be replaced by a photograph in which the burns were not as bad. so you see, there's still a gap in thinking between survivors and those who have not seen what they've seen. >> so what are people in nagasaki doing to spread their message? >> yes. city leaders there plan to continue to sponsor exhibits abroad. about the atomic bomb. nagasaki and hiroshima have been at the forefront of an international ngo called mayors for peace. more than 5,000 member cities plan to put on stimulus exhibitions next summer to demonstrate the horrors of these weapons. >> a powerful message a

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