Gov't bans mushroom shipments near nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano speaks in a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 13, 2011. Edano said the government on the same day banned shipments of shiitake mushrooms grown outdoors in five cities, eight towns and three villages near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, citing high levels of radioactivity.

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