High School Baseball Invitation tournament ("Senbatsu") began today.

Today,one day less than two weeks after the great earthquake and tsunami hit Tohoku and northern Kanto,the 83rd Senior High School Baseball Invitation Tournament began. Opinions were split over whether the tournament should go ahead,but the organizers decided it should be opened as scheduled. They are hoping that the young students' devotions will encourage people in areas struck by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11th. Three games were played today after the simplified opening ceremony.Hokkai Senior High School defeated Soshi Gakuen Senior High School by the score of 2-1.

Prime minister Kan ordered that people should not eat some kinds of vegetables produced in Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures, because they were contaminated with radioactivity. And also the tap water in Tokyo was contaminated,so it was not good for infants younger than one year old to drink. The nuclear reactor No.3 in Fukushima power plant was giving off black smoke again.