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Fukushima One Year On: Nuclear workers and citizens at risk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Paul Jobin
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Paul Jobin began research on Japanese (and Taiwanese) nuclear plant workers in 2002, mainly at Fukushima Daiichi. After March 2011, he conducted further interviews in Fukushima and Hamaoka and joined rounds of negotiation launched by labor groups with the Ministry of Health and Labor.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 20 , May 2012 , e1
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References

Notes

1 Yuki Tanaka and Peter Kuznick, Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power” The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 9, Issue 18 No 1, May 2, 2011.

2 Sawada Shōji, emeritus professor at the University of Nagoya, explained clearly how the neglect of internal contamination on the cohorts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hibakusha led to obvious minimization of the consequences of even low-doses of radiation. See here.

3 “20 Millisieverts for Children and Kosako Toshisō's Resignation,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, May 1, 2011

4 Shushō kantei genshiryoku senmonka gurupu: see here.

5 Tsuiseki shinsō fairu, NHK, 26 December 2011.

See also the defense of that documentary by Prof. Sawada Shōji against the protest of the nuclear lobby, in Days Japan, March 2012. Another NHK documentary, on January 15, 2012, “Umi kara no hokoku” was an outstanding investigation in collaboration with scholars on marine contamination. Hot spots were found as far as 100 km from Fukushima

Daiichi. See here.

6 See the report by the German TV-channel ZDF (with English subtitles).

7 See here.

8 See here.