2020: Health Effects of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Volume 18 | Issue 19 | Number 5 | Article ID 5493 | Oct 01, 2020


“Take Science Seriously and Value Ethics Greatly”:

Health Effects of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Interview with Hisako Sakiyama, M.D. & Ph.D.
by Katsuya Hirano & Hirotaka Kasai
Translated by Akiko Anson


Introduction
Hisako Sakiyama has a PhD in Medicine and is a Member of the Takagi School of Alternative Scientists, a Japanese NGO established in 1998 to study the environment, nuclear issues, human rights, and other issues in modern society from the perspective of citizens. The School seeks to create ways that scientists and prospective scientists can link their specialized expertise and capabilities with citizen movements. She has been a Research Associate at MIT and worked on cancer cell biology as Former Senior Researcher at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) in Japan. Sakiyama served as a member of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC), a commission established by the Japanese Diet in 2011. She subsequently co-established the 3.11 Fund for Children with Thyroid Cancer with Ruiko Muto in 2016. As a former member of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigative Commission, Dr Sakiyama continues to be active in sharing her findings, which often contradict those of the Japanese government and its associated scientists’ in terms of their evalution of the health effects of the nuclear disaster, with media and citizens around the world (K.H.).

The interview was held on June 3rd, 2018 and updated on August 13, 2020.

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