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Tokyo tiptoes toward normality as disaster impact lingers Tweet Share this By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Yoko Hashiguchi and her toddler fled Tokyo after a deadly earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at a power plant 240 km (150 miles) away. Three weeks later, they're back... Email Print Related News Lives in limbo three weeks after Japan's tsunami 12:19am EDT Analysis & Opinion India’s coal irony An entrepreneur’s view of the Japan quake Related Topics World » Japan » Natural Disasters » Stocks A customer shops at a greengrocery at the Togoshi Ginza in Tokyo March 23, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Aly Song By Linda Sieg TOKYO | Fri Apr 1, 2011 12:19am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - Yoko Hashiguchi and her toddler fled Tokyo after a deadly earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan and triggered a nuclear disaster at a power plant 240 km (150 miles) away. Three weeks later, they're back in the capital, hoping life will get back to normal. "After the quake, my husband said 'Leave' so we went to (the southern island of) Okinawa. Now I have to return to work and my daughter starts daycare, so we came back," said Hashiguchi, 33, cuddling her daughter on a park swing. Life in the metropolis of 13 million people is tiptoeing toward normality from the early post-disaster days when train service was patchy, workers stayed home and groceries were bare of necessities such as bread, milk, toilet paper and diapers. But the new normal is a pale shadow of the pre-disaster hustle and bustle. Shoplights are dimmed as power shortages persist, only about half the escalators are running in subway stations and Tokyo's boisterous nightlife is only now starting to revive. Stress simmers just beneath the surface and an air of self-restraint is keeping shoppers at home, raising concerns about the world's third-biggest economy as it tries to recover from a disaster that caused damages that could top $300 billion. Some fret most about the possible spread of radiation from the quake-crippled plant to food and water after high levels were found in vegetables from regions around the plant. A Reuters reading on Friday showed a radiation level in downtown Tokyo itself of 0.2 microsieverts per hour -- still low by global standards. "If the nuclear situation gets worse, we'll leave. I've got our gear all packed," Hashiguchi said. The battle to stabilize six reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) Fukushima plant could take weeks if not months, followed by a clean-up operation that may drag on for years. Repeated and large aftershocks are also fanning fears that a massive quake could strike again, this time closer to home. "I only go as far from home as I can walk back and I take emergency gear with me," said Noriko Ariura, rummaging in a bag holding a radio, flashlight, bottled water and medicine. "If we go further afield, I take protective helmets, too," said the mother of a five-year-old son, who admitted she was more nervous than many after surviving the 1995 quake that killed 6,400 people in the western port city of Kobe. NOT A TIME FOR LUXURIES Daily necessities are returning to shop shelves. But items like toilet paper and bottled water -- which disappeared after radiation from the damaged plant briefly made tap water unsafe for infants -- are limited to one per customer to stem hoarding. 1 2 Next World Japan Natural Disasters Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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