Staff writer
Yauko Taniguchi's life is more hectic than ever these days as she tries to guard herself and her family from a Year 2000 catastrophe.
A Kagoshima city resident, Taniguchi has been growing vegetables and stockpiling food as a precaution against the Y2K computer problem. Recently, she went one step further: the 49-year-old mother has mail-ordered natural foods containing high levels of iodine -- the only substance known to shield the body, at least partially, against cancer-causing radiation poisoning.