I live in Japan, I have lived here since the earthquake and for years before it. I even spent time doing volunteer work in Fukushima immediately after the earthquake. I am fine, and Japan is totally safe. As is most fish from the pacific ocean, if you have been avoiding eating those too. We aren't mutating, our food is safe, our water is safe, and quite a few cities here actually still have lower radiation levels than some other cities that did not experience any such disaster.
I wouldn't recommend taking a trip to see the reactors at Fukushima or anything, but general tourism? Yeah you are fine. Unsurprisingly, the internet likes to make it sounds like Japan is sinking and we are all dead. Maybe they just have competing business interests, I really don't know, but it's safe here.
If it makes you feel better, I would recommend reading this. It is from a specialist who did research onto the waters after Chernobyl...aka the probably best person on the planet to ask about this.
@khronikos: "Alternative" news sites, like "alternative" medicine, are mostly bogus. The reason people don't like enenews.com is because...it's junk. It is a website that mysteriously came into existence only immediately after the March earthquake with a pretty obvious agenda, that often makes up sources or uses discredited sources. I know you aren't necessarily one of the people fear mongering with some hidden agenda, just letting you know why thats not really a valid source to rely on.
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