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Masaharu Maeda, a professor of disaster psychiatry at Fukushima Medical University. There were 19 disaster-related suicides in Fukushima Prefecture last year, up by four over 2014. (Asahi Shimbun)
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shonanbb
How many suicides because of over work for the same people? This stat is flawed.
Leila26
So sad what has happened at Fukushima. Families have long been "torn apart" in the US, though. My mother's mother raised three kids in Japan and three in Hawaii.
Utrack
If Fukushima Daiichi NPP had been entombed from the beginning maybe folks raising families would be closer to the elderly of their family. This is TEPCO's and J Govt fault... With this Disaster Clean up nonsense... There is no clean up for a nuclear disaster only entombment. It has been shown that low level radiation does indeed cause cancer...
kurisupisu
Yes, and children should be well away from Fukushima, to be raised in a safer environment!
BertieWooster
"Disaster psychiatry?"
Psychiatry IS a disaster!