Life and Death Choices: Radiation, children, and Japan’s future　生死を分ける選択—放射線、子どもの健康、そして日本の未来 :: Japan Focus

Three days after meltdown began at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on 11 March, 2011, Fujimoto moved his two daughters, then aged four and three, to safety hundreds of kilometers away. In December, 2012 the eldest of the two was diagnosed with adenoidal cysts, the prelude to a type of cancer that often strikes the salivary glands. “I was told by the doctor that it’s very rare,” he says. Although Mr Fujimoto and his family were in Chiba Prefecture, over 100km (60 miles) from the nuclear plant