." >>> officials in yokohama city are conducting more soil tests for radioactive strontium. this comes after a local resident detected the substance on the roof of an apartment building. yokohama is located about 250 kilometers from the crippled fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. radioactive cesium, more than 80 times the government's set limit of 500 becquerels her kilogram, was found last month in samples of sediment collected from roadside ditches in yokohama. the city later removed the contaminated sediment. but the city decided to retest the samples from the roadside for radioactive strontium due to the request of a local resident. the resident said a private testing institution had detected 195 becquerels of strontium per kilogram, more than six times the government safety limit, in the rooftop sample. the science ministry says radioactive strontium can accumulate in bones and that it poses a cancer risk. the ministry says it has conducted only a few checks for strontium outside of fukushima prefecture because the amounts detected within the prefecture were very small. h

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a three-year journey was about to come it to an end in yokohama. at the helm was minaru saito, a man not shy about revealing his age. [ applause ] [ laughter ] >> mr. saito, congratulations. how do you feel? >> very happy, very happy now. >> when saito was a mere youngster of 39, a friend taught him how to sail. since then, the wind and the sea have never been far from his thoughts. saito participated in numerous international races and crossed the globe seven times. in 2007, a prestigious yacht club in the united states named him the world's best sailor. he was the first japanese to receive the honor. when saito became 50, he retired from business and sold his possessions. for nearly 30 years now, his boat has been his home. he lives on a modest pension. which part of sailing attracts you? >> translator: freedom. no one orders me around. and i order no one on the ocean. so i'm calm when i watch the sea. >> at the age of 74, saito said the time had come for him to circle the world again. for his eighth global voyage, he chose to sail west, a course

being carried out in japan after high levels of radiation were found in the cities of tokyo and yokohama the levels there are higher than in some areas that were evacuated around the crippled fukushima nuclear plant scientists are working in just how far the contamination has spread as both cities are more than two hundred kilometers away from the disaster zone and it's come seven months after an earthquake and tsunami brought fukushima close to a nuclear meltdown. and shock waves from japan's a radioactive disaster reached as far as europe germany was one of the first to react deciding to stop all of all of the use of nuclear power in just eleven years time the country hopes to get most of its energy from renewable sources it was artists on board and discovered it could be jumping the gun. germany has long had a strong green anti nuclear movement but it was one accident that finally turned the tide against nuclear power there. by twenty twenty two and the use of nuclear energy in germany so what now the green movement and its hopes for renewable energy have been given a huge boost renew

a small radiation hotspots have been detected in the japanese cities of tokyo and yokohama levels are actually higher than in some areas that were evacuated around the crippled fukushima nuclear plant scientists say the radiation poses no danger to health but more checks are being made the discovery comes seven months after an earthquake and tsunami brought fukushima close to a nuclear meltdown. the consequences of their near nuclear disaster in japan were far reaching and germany has taken the lead in europe promising to give up nuclear power by twenty twenty two and thale the gap with or unknowable forces but it's not all positive and eco friendly future a well be one of blackouts disappearing industry and huge electricity costs as artist on bart now reports. germany has long had a strong green antinuclear movement but it was one accident that finally turned the tide against nuclear power there by twenty twenty two who will and the use of nuclear energy in germany so what now the green movement and its hopes for renewable energy have been given a huge boost renewables mostly wind tu

all radiation hotspots have been detected in the japanese cities of tokyo and yokohama the levels are actually higher than in some areas that were evacuated around the crippled fukushima nuclear plant scientists say the radiation possesses the no danger to health but war checks are being made the discovery comes seven months after an earthquake and tsunami brought fukushima close to a nuclear meltdown. for the adventurous spanning a long and lonely months in orbit mealtimes on the international space station are a highlight but in zero gravity is a challenge both for the diners and the high tech chefs have to plan to many on earth so are people all over along for tasting. after traveling at phenomenal speed for two days cramped in the small space of a so you rocket cosmonauts arriving at the international space station going to be. there how do you eat and zero gravity. well you have to be a bit more careful than down here on earth every little piece of food the gets out of your group will float away and you will not be able to keep track of it to make sure cosmonauts enjoy their lunc

so how do you go about creating specific voices for a jewish russian character by way of yokohama, for an african american character, for all these different characters? i know you worked with specific actors. did they help at all? what was the process there? . >> absolutely. in terms of the african american characters, i wrote this piece initially for the act core company and i thought it would be a great challenge to actually write a play for the core company and the core company has two african american characters and i had tailored two of the characters for steven anthony jones and gregry wallace. it's interesting that gregory wallace, an african american man, was supposed to play mr. oge, an excentric neisei who likes literature. i thought it would be an interesting thing to do. but after a while we did a reading and we realized as good an actor as gregory is, it was pushing his limits for him to play a japanese american character in the late 40's. >> i imagine him as being much older. >> in the course of writing the play and using various actors, he became younger. this chinese a

american, three, rather, but there are african american characters, there's a russian jew by way of yokohama and i don't necessarily have those backgrounds. so in the workshop process, what it allows me to do to work with actors, particularly some of the african american characters, i can work with them to make sure the characters i am developing have a authentic, you know, authenticity to them and that they are from the inside out as opposed to sort of working from the outside in. so, for me, those kinds of things are critical so i spent a great deal of time making sure that the characters that were wrought that you will ultimately see on stage are truthful, are grounded in real life. so over this period of 3 1/2 to 4 years it was time well spent and it continues to be developed even as we speak. i'm going to go home and do some more rewriting after this. so it's still being worked on. >> so let's talk a little bit about the inspiration for the play. i mean, i've seen from reading different things about you that your productions or your plays have been inspired by very diverse things. for e