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22 September 2011 Last updated at 14:57 GMT
In Fukushima priests have planted sunflowers to help fight radiation Japanese mobile phone giant NTT DoCoMo is developing a smartphone that will measure radiation levels.The design was inspired by worries over the health implications of the radiation leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
The phone will come with changeable "jackets" which will also be able to measure bad breath and body fat.
It will be showcased at a tech show in Japan next month.
Radiation fearsAt the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technology, hosted near Tokyo next month, DoCoMo will show off three smartphone 'jackets'' that are fitted with sensors, to monitor body mass as well as level of skin-damaging ultraviolet light.
But the shell that measures radiation levels is likely to prove the most popular.
"Many customers have been nervous about radiation since the Great East Japan Earthquake," DoCoMo's spokesman Daisuke Sakuma told the news agency AFP.
"We had been thinking what services we can provide to address these needs as a telecom carrier," he added.
Demand for radiation-measuring devices has soared in Japan since the disaster six months ago.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan is ordering more tests on rice growing near a crippled nuclear plant after finding elevated levels of radiation, government officials said Saturday.A sample of unharvested rice contained 500 becquerels of cesium per kilogram, they said. Radioactive cesium was spewed from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant after it was damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11.Under Japanese regulations, rice with up to 500 becquerels of cesium per kilogram is considered safe for consumption.Officials have tested rice from more than 400 spots in Fukushima prefecture. The highest level of cesium previously found was 136 becquerels per kilogram, prefectural official Kazuhiko Kanno said.News of the elevated radiation level in rice from Nihonmatsu city, 55 kilometers (35 miles) west of the nuclear plant, set off alarm in the Japanese media.The government has been testing vegetables and fish for radiation since the disaster, in which backup generators and cooling systems failed at the plant and the cores of three reactors melted.Some nations have stopped importing some food products from Japan. Japanese consumers are nervous about radiation, but campaigns to buy from Fukushima have drawn support around the nation.Associated Press 
