Hibakusha Offspring Seek Larger National Study to Address Their Health Concerns

Article describes a report of the Tokyo Federation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations describing how 60% of second generation hibakusha have concerns over the impacts of nuclear radiation exposure on their health.  To this date, while there has been a survey on lifestyle-related diseases amongst the second generation of hibakusha descendants, this study did not cover cancer or mental conditions.

July 30, 2015 – The Japan Times

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/30/national/science-health/hibakusha-offspring-seek-greater-national-study-address-health-concerns/#.VcFFhUnbLIW

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s