"All rice grown in Fukushima pass radiation safety checks for first time"

As reported by the Asahi Shimbun, no Fukushima Prefecture grown rice in 2014, tested for radioactivity, were found to surpass so-called "acceptable" or "permissible" level of radioactive Cesium. That could not be said in 2012 and 2013.

However, despite the phrase "safety standards" used in the article, Japan's standard of 100 becquerels/kg of food does not mean the food is "safe." A cost-benefit analysis has been done, and government decision makers have deemed the health risks of eating the contaminated rice "acceptable." 

For, as the U.S. NAS has affirmed for decades, any exposure to ionizing radioactivity carries a health risk for cancer, and these risks accumulate over a lifetime of exposures.

However, Japan's standard is twelve times stronger than America's, and ten times stronger than Canada's. Canada "allows" 1,000 Bq/kg of radioactive Cesium in food; the U.S. "permits" a whopping 1,200 Bq/kg! This means that radioactively contaminated food grown in Japan considered unfit for domestic consumption could be exported to North American markets.