Demand for nuclear shelters, purifiers surges in Japan

Tokyo

SALES of nuclear shelters and radiation-blocking air purifiers have surged in Japan in recent weeks as North Korea pressed ahead with missile tests in defiance of UN sanctions.

A small company that specialises in building nuclear shelters, generally under people's houses, has received eight orders in April alone compared with six orders during a typical year.

The company, Oribe Seiki Seisakusho, based in Kobe, western Japan, also sold out 50 Swiss-made air p…