Published: September 11th, 2012 at 11:42 pm ET
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Title: Helping to ease minds on radiation
Source: Reuters
Date: Sept 11, 2012
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the children [are] sitting at the tables in the Fukushima Red Cross hospital cafeteria
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They’re waiting their turn to go in to the whole body scanner, which tests internal exposure to radiation.
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Local Red Cross officials say there is so far no information on any effects of the radiation, such as have been seen in the areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which include immune system problems and listlessness among children.
Title: Disaster-area kids under hard stress
Source: Jiji
Date: Sep. 12, 2012
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A year and a half have passed since the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and massive tsunami devastated the Tohoku region’s coast and led to the triple-meltdown crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Many children have developed a fear of water and appear weak and prone to sickness. And in Fukushima, fears of radiation among adults appear to have had an impact on children.
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[A Fukushima housewife's] 2-year-old son has meanwhile become more prone to falling ill.
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Yuji Tsutsui, 47, a professor of experimental psychology at Fukushima University, said many 3-year-old children studied in areas with high radiation levels are displaying spoiled attitudes and clinging behavior toward their parents.
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See also: Fukushima Pediatrician Warns: "Clear sign something abnormal is occurring" in young children
Published: September 11th, 2012 at 11:42 pm ET
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Doctor Yuji Tsutsui observes that "…children studied in areas with high radiation levels are displaying spoiled attitudes and clinging behavior toward their parents." This is the professional conclusion of a "professor of experimental psychology"? These families are languishing in regions with high radiation levels and this man can only point to petulant and clinging behavior of these children? I'm not sure who's more pathetic. The innocent victims who've been abandoned by the government of Japan or this so-called man of science…
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There was a recent government sponsored symposium held in Japan to address the continued rise in public worry over radiation, seeing fear, rather than radiation exposure, as the primary threat. We shall expect to see many more such "learned opinions" making their way into the the media for a while. It is the mainstream response to the public attention that the protests and the local civic actions are receiving. The strategy to minimize public fears over the radiation fall out by portraying concerned people as emotionally unbalanced worked after Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the hope must surely be that it will work again with Fukushima.
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