Stuart Gilmour, Amina Sugimoto, Shuhei Nomura, Tomoyoshi Oikawa,
To the Editor: The town of Minamisoma in Fukushima, Japan, lost approximately 1% of its population to the Great East Japan tsunami on March 11, 2011,1 and was ... inpatient medical records for the neurosurgical unit at Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital between September 11, 2007, and ... a stroke. Monthly resident population records from the Minamisoma municipal government, adjusted in the 6-month period ... month to be the population registered with the Minamisoma municipal office at or near the start of ...
Tópico(s): Disaster Response and Management
2015 - Wiley | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Kazunobu Ishikawa, Yukio Kanazawa, Shigeto Morimoto, Takashi Takahashi,
... slight increase in risk of malignant diseases. In Minamisoma, there were 305 disaster-associated deaths, 298 (97.7%) of which were in elderly adults. Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, which is located in the ... in Fukushima. The population of 72,000 in Minamisoma before the accident decreased to approximately 10,000 ... families. The average age of the population in Minamisoma has increased by 14 years because of the ... observed in Futaba county and Iitate village near Minamisoma. Public attention for the nuclear plant workers5 and ...
Tópico(s): Radioactive contamination and transfer
2012 - Wiley | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Moe Hirohara, Akihiko Ozaki, Masaharu Tsubokura,
... the major issues associated with the recovery of Minamisoma City in Fukushima Prefecture, after the Great East ... residents’ decisions about evacuation and the return to Minamisoma. In particular, we focus on the experiences of ... form with 25 nurses from four hospitals in Minamisoma City. The interview questions focused on the reasons ... thirds of the interviewees chose to evacuate from Minamisoma with their family. Family conditions seem to be ...
Tópico(s): Disaster Management and Resilience
2019 - BioMed Central | BMC Health Services Research
Dhani S. Wibawa, Muhammad Ansori Nasution, Ryozo Noguchi, Tofael Ahamed, Mikihide Demura, Makoto M. Watanabe,
... energy source, in a pilot project located at Minamisoma City in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan. The ... were mainly composed of Desmodesmus collected from the Minamisoma pilot project. The microalgae oil-production processes in Minamisoma consisted of three stages: cultivation, dewatering, and extraction. ...
Tópico(s): Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
2018 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Energies
Amina Sugimoto, Stuart Gilmour, Masaharu Tsubokura, Shuhei Nomura, Masahiro Kami, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Yukio Kanazawa, Kenji Shibuya,
... and level of internal contamination in residents of Minamisoma, and identified factors determining the risk and levels ... counter (WBC) measurement and a questionnaire survey in Minamisoma, between October 2011 and March 2012.Results: Approximately ... the risk of medium-term internal contamination in Minamisoma City, Fukushima, Japan, after the Fukushima Dai-ichi ...
Tópico(s): Radioactive element chemistry and processing
2014 - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | Environmental Health Perspectives
Keitaro Harasawa, Tetsuya Tanimoto, Masahiro Kami, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Yukio Kanazawa, Hideki Komatsu,
... have been stationed near the temporary housing in Minamisoma City, in Hamadouri district, which is close to ... radiation exposure. The population of 72 000 in Minamisoma City dropped to about 10 000 just after ... exception among medical professionals and their families. In Minamisoma district, the number of staff doctors and nurses ... doses measured so far are relatively small in Minamisoma City, more support is needed to increase the ...
Tópico(s): Radioactive contamination and transfer
2012 - Elsevier BV | The Lancet
Kana Yamamoto, Shuhei Nomura, Masaharu Tsubokura, Michio Murakami, Akihiko Ozaki, Claire Leppold, Toyoaki Sawano, Morihito Takita, Shigeaki Kato, Yukio Kanazawa, Hiroshi Anbe,
... internal cesium (Cs) level among pregnant women in Minamisoma City (the area straddling the evacuation zones) over ... conducted in an obstetrics and gynaecology service in Minamisoma City in Fukushima, Japan. Participants Participants included pregnant ...
Tópico(s): Risk Perception and Management
2019 - BMJ | BMJ Open
Masaharu Tsubokura, Shuhei Nomura, Izumi Yoshida, Toyoaki Sawano, Makoto Miyazaki, Satoru Tomita, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Masami Watanabe,
... To evaluate the dose from external exposure in Minamisoma city, and compare the differences with outside Fukushima ... assessment project in cooperation with city officials in Minamisoma and three other cities in Japan where the ... initiate further remedial actions. Mean external dose in Minamisoma city (0.820 mSv/year) was comparable to ...
Tópico(s): Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
2017 - IOP Publishing | Journal of Radiological Protection
Masaharu Tsubokura, Shigeaki Kato, Tomohiro Morita, Shuhei Nomura, Masahiro Kami, Kikugoro Sakaihara, Tatsuo Hanai, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Yukio Kanazawa,
... Data for all primary and secondary children in Minamisoma who participated in both external and internal screening ... of annual additional effective doses among children in Minamisoma has been low, even after the inter-individual ...
Tópico(s): Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
2015 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
R. Hayano, Yuni N. Watanabe, Shuhei Nomura, Tsuyoshi Nemoto, Masaharu Tsubokura, Tatsuo Hanai, Yuki Kumemoto, Satoshi Kowata, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Yukio Kanazawa,
... body burdens of 566 high-risk residents of Minamisoma city were measured in July 2011 at the Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital. The analysis of the data ...
Tópico(s): Radiation Dose and Imaging
2014 - IOP Publishing | Journal of Radiological Protection
Naohide Shinohara, Masahiro Tokumura, Misae Kazama, Hiroshi Yoshino, Seiji Ochiai, Atsushi Mizukoshi,
... houses in different temporary housing estate constructed in Minamisoma City following the Great East Japan Earthquake. The ... companies assigned to construct temporary houses in that Minamisoma City. Data were collected shortly after construction and ...
Tópico(s): Radioactive contamination and transfer
2013 - Wiley | Indoor Air
Moe Kawashima, Toyoaki Sawano, Michio Murakami, Nobuaki Moriyama, Kenmei Kitazawa, Yuna Uchi, Saori Nonaka, Naomi Ito, Hiroaki Saito, Toshiki Abe, Mamoru Sakakibara, Kazuko Yagiuchi, Mako Otsuki, Arinobu Hori, Akihiko Ozaki, Chika Yamamoto, Tianchen Zhao, Taiga Uchiyama, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Shin‐Ichi Niwa, Masaharu Tsubokura,
... collected from 520 people who were living in Minamisoma City during the earthquake and whose deaths were certified as disaster-related by the Minamisoma City Committee for Certification of Disaster-Related Deaths ...
Tópico(s): Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
2023 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Akihiko Ozaki, Hiroaki Saito, Yudai Kaneda, Toyoaki Sawano, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Michio Murakami, Masaharu Tsubokura, Kei Hirai, Hiromichi Ohira,
... trend of breast cancer screening program uptake in Minamisoma City following the 2011 Triple Disaster in Fukushima, ... Resident Registry and Breast Cancer Screening Program in Minamisoma City following the Triple Disaster. We calculated the ...
Tópico(s): Radiation Dose and Imaging
2023 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Nobuaki Moriyama, Tomohiro Morita, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Yurie Kobashi, Michio Murakami, Akihiko Ozaki, Saori Nonaka, Toyoaki Sawano, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Masaharu Tsubokura,
... cohort study.Older individuals (n = 13,934) in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, part of which was designated ... living in evacuation areas.In total, 18,178 Minamisoma residents aged ≥65 years who had not received ...
Tópico(s): Disaster Management and Resilience
2021 - Elsevier BV | Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
Hiroaki Saito, Akihiko Ozaki, Michio Murakami, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Toyoaki Sawano, Sho Fujioka, Yuki Shimada, Tianchen Zhao, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Yukio Kanazawa, Masaharu Tsubokura,
... CRC screening participation rates over 10 years in Minamisoma City, where residents were forced to evacuate after ...
Tópico(s): Radiation Dose and Imaging
2021 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Shuhei Nomura, Michio Murakami, Akihiko Ozaki, Toyoaki Sawano, Claire Leppold, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Hiroaki Saito, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Masaharu Tsubokura,
... risk of non-communicable diseases among evacuees from Minamisoma City (one of the closest municipalities to the ... self-employed) from 2010 to 2017 administered by Minamisoma City. Diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension were defined from ...
Tópico(s): Frailty in Older Adults
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Global Health Action
Toru Aramaki, Makoto M. Watanabe, Mitsutoshi Nakajima, Sosaku Ichikawa,
... from native microalgal communities was carried out in Minamisoma city, Japan. After cultivation in open-air raceway ...
Tópico(s): Algal biology and biofuel production
2020 - Elsevier BV | Bioresource Technology Reports
Michio Murakami, Shuhei Nomura, Masaharu Tsubokura, Yoshitake Takebayashi, Kana Yamamoto, Tomoyoshi Oikawa,
... 392 adults and 3650 children participated), conducted in Minamisoma City during the same period. We examined the ...
Tópico(s): Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
2019 - IOP Publishing | Journal of Radiological Protection
Masaharu Tsubokura, Michio Murakami, Yoshitake Takebayashi, Shuhei Nomura, Kyoko Ono, Akihiko Ozaki, Toyoaki Sawano, Yurie Kobashi, Tomoyoshi Oikawa,
... 18 392 adults and 3 650 children in Minamisoma City, Fukushima, who participated in a voluntary screening ...
Tópico(s): Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
2019 - IOP Publishing | Journal of Radiological Protection
E. J. Kim, Kazuaki Yajima, Shozo Hashimoto, Kotaro Tani, Yu Igarashi, Takeshi Iimoto, Nobuhito Ishigure, Hideo Tatsuzaki, Makoto Akashi, Osamu Kurihara,
... above three municipalities and those of subjects from Minamisoma City and Fukushima City. One of the findings ... Iwaki City. The range of thyroid doses to Minamisoma City residents was similar to that to Iitate ...
Tópico(s): Nuclear and radioactivity studies
2019 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Health Physics
Toyoaki Sawano, Toshiyuki Kambe, Yuki Seno, Ran Konoe, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Akihiko Ozaki, Yuki Shimada, Tomohiro Morita, Hiroaki Saito, Masaharu Tsubokura,
... the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident, Minamisoma City launched internal radiation exposure monitoring program for ... had been staying in the exclusion zone of Minamisoma City, was brought to our hospital. He had ...
Tópico(s): Risk Perception and Management
2019 - Wolters Kluwer | Medicine
Tomohiro Morita, Shuhei Nomura, Tomoyuki Furutani, Claire Leppold, Masaharu Tsubokura, Akihiko Ozaki, Sae Ochi, Masahiro Kami, Shigeaki Kato, Tomoyoshi Oikawa,
... evaluated. We estimated post-disaster demographic transitions in Minamisoma City—located 14–38 km north of the ... household composition. Results The overall population decline in Minamisoma City peaked 11 days after the disaster, when ...
Tópico(s): Risk Perception and Management
2018 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Shuhei Nomura, Masaharu Tsubokura, Akihiko Ozaki, Michio Murakami, Susan Hodgson, Marta Blangiardo, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Tomohiro Morita, Tomoyoshi Oikawa,
... incident, we assessed voluntary-based monitoring behavior in Minamisoma City-located 10-40 km from the Fukushima ... to inform future monitoring strategies. The monitoring in Minamisoma included occasional free of charge internal-radiation-exposure ...
Tópico(s): Radiation Dose and Imaging
2017 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Mikihide Demura, Masaki Yoshida, Akiko Yokoyama, Junko Itô, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Shinji Kayano, Yuichi Tamagawa, Masayuki Watanobe, Naoto Date, Makoto Osaka, Mitsuru Kawarada, Teruo Watanabe, Isao Inouye, Makoto M. Watanabe,
... out experimental cultivations of native algal communities in Minamisoma city, Fukushima Prefecture, located in the cool temperate ...
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal ecosystems
2017 - Elsevier BV | Algal Research
Shuhei Nomura, Masaharu Tsubokura, Michio Murakami, Kyoko Ono, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Tomoyoshi Oikawa,
... the internal monitoring results from voluntary participants in Minamisoma City, which is located 10-40 km from ... approximately 70,000 individuals who were residing in Minamisoma City before the incident, a total of 19, ...
Tópico(s): Radiation Dose and Imaging
2017 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
H. Toda, Shuhei Nomura, Stuart Gilmour, Masaharu Tsubokura, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Kiwon Lee, Grace Y. Kiyabu, Kenji Shibuya,
... check-ups from 2009 to 2012, administered by Minamisoma city, located about 10 to 40 km from ... was no obvious increase in CVD risks in Minamisoma city, which may indicate successful management of health ...
Tópico(s): Effects of Radiation Exposure
2017 - BMJ | BMJ Open
Hisaya Matsunami, Toshifumi Murakami, H. Fujiwara, Takuro Shinano,
... brown rice did not exceed regulatory levels in Minamisoma City, Fukushima. However, in 2013, some radiocaesium concentrations ... the unexplained radiocaesium contamination of brown rice in Minamisoma City in 2013 is the adherence of radioactive ...
Tópico(s): Radioactive element chemistry and processing
2016 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Shoji Yabuki, Kazuo Ouchi, Shinichi Kikuchi, Shin‐ichi Konno,
... study was a cross-sectional study performed in Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture 1 year and 6 months ...
Tópico(s): Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
2015 - BioMed Central | BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
... technology – social media – may support resilience-building for Minamisoma, a fishing community facing complex and ongoing environmental ... offers a channel for some community members in Minamisoma to (re)construct a sense of pride and ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
2022 - Elsevier BV | Ocean & Coastal Management
Takashi Ohba, Arifumi Hasegawa, Gen Suzuki,
... 087 evacuees from Tomioka, Okuma, Futaba, Naraha, Namie, Minamisoma, and other municipalities in Japan. The measurement value ... 1 mSv, and 14.8 mSv for the Minamisoma group; and 2.3 mSv, 0.5 mSv, ...
Tópico(s): Nuclear and radioactivity studies
2019 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Health Physics