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• Chapter 1. A Brief History of Bioethics in Japan
• Chapter 2. Brain-death and organ transplantation: The first Japanese Path
• Chapter 3. Informed Consent, Familism, and the Nature of Autonomy
• Chapter 4. End-of-Life Care, Advance Directives, Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment, and The Goals of Medicine
• Chapter 5. The Moral Status of the Embryo: The Second Japanese Path
• Chapter 6. The Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident
• Chapter 7. Outcome egalitarianism and opportunity egalitarianism
• Chapter 8. Research Regulations, Ethics Committees, and Confronting Global Standards
• Chapter 9. Modern Medical Professionalism
• Chapter 10. What does it mean to be truly "interdisciplinary"?
• Chapter 11. Rebirthing Bioethics: Going Global.

This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences from Japan. It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides where it stands on these issues. In the last chapter, the author proposes discarding the overarching term 'Global Bioethics in favor of the new term, 'Bioethics Across the Globe (BAG), which carries a more universal connotation. This book serves as an excellent tool to help readers understand a different culture and to initiate deep and genuine global dialogue that incorporates local and global thinking on bioethics. Bioethics Across the Globe is a valuable resource for researchers in the field of bioethics/medical ethics interested in adopting cross-cultural approaches, as well as graduate and undergraduate students of healthcare and philosophy.

• Physicians' early response to Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident: Challenges and lessons learned
• General considerations in radiation disaster medicine
• Medical perspective
• Pre-hospital emergency medical response
• Hospital emergency medical response
• Disaster behavioral health: Psychological effects of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident
• Management perspective: Structure of radiation emergency response in Japan
• Management perspective: Structure of radiation emergency response in International Organizations
• Radiation disaster medicine curriculum revisited in a post-Fukushima context.

The role of disaster medicine is becoming more important as the frequency and severity of natural and technological disasters increase. The triple disaster that occurred in Fukushima on March 11, 2011 calls for innovation in the training of health care professionals, pre-hospital emergency care providers, and emergency personnel in the management of the medical consequences of radiation disasters. While many books are available on disaster medicine, none is specifically devoted to the role of physicians in the management of patients exposed to radiation leakage from a damaged nuclear power plant. Radiation Disaster Medicine aims to fill this void based on the response to the Fukushima nuclear accident. Each chapter addresses principles and practices of radiation medicine within the specific context of that accident. Topics covered include the role of physicians in radiation disasters, the concepts of external and internal exposure, prehospital and hospital response, disaster behavioral health, and radiation emergency response from the perspective of national and international institutions. Most of the contributors are active educators and researchers in radiation medicine with first-hand experience in dealing with prehospital triage and management of patients within secondary and tertiary care hospitals in Japan. It is hoped that this book will assist in attaining the ultimate goal of radiation disaster medicine: to help the patients.

• Foreword
• Preface
• 1. Godzilla mon amour: the Origins and Legacy of Nuclear Fear in Japan
• 2. Unforeseeable Accidents from the Point of View of the Legal System
• 3. Report on Fukushima Counseling Support Professional Team: Interdisciplinary Team Approach for Psychosocial Care of Evacuees
• 4. Societal and Ethical Aspects of Radiation Risk Perception
• 5. Thinking Across Disaster
• 6. Emotional Consequences of TMI and Chernobyl: Lessons Learned for Fukushima
• 7. 3/11 and 9/11: A Multi-faceted Investigation of a Survivor Exchange Program
• 8. Psychosocial Responses to Disaster and Exposures: Distress Reactions, Health Risk Behavior, and Mental Disorders
• 9. Psychosocial Challenges of the Fukushima Nuclear Plant Workers.

• Section 1. Lessons from Chernobyl: an Examination of Radiation Risks, Based on International Consensus and Evidence Related to Thyroid Cancer, 30 Years after
• Section 2. Thyroid Cancer: The Reality of Chernobyl
• Section 3. Thyroid Cancer: Questions for Fukushima
• Section 4. From Chernobyl to Fukushima

Thyroid Cancer and Nuclear Accidents: Long-Term Aftereffects of Chernobyl and Fukushima discusses the radiobiological effects of the release of radioiodine from two nuclear power plant accidents and appropriate interpretation of the results of thyroid ultrasound examination. The book pulls together expert opinion on radiation related thyroid cancer in an understandable manner, even for non thyroidologists. The book explains what has been learned from both accidents in relation to prevention of thyroid cancer following nuclear power plant accidents. The book encompasses topics such as risk estimations of thyroid cancer following nuclear accidents and clinical aspects after those specific situations. Additionally, it discusses in detail the reports from Fukushima related to thyroid cancer in the population. This book is a valuable resource for oncologists and biomedical researchers with interest in nuclear accidents and cancer cases.

In a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, Naoto Kan describes the harrowing days after a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami led to the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In vivid language, he tells how he struggled with the possibility that tens of millions of people would need to be evacuated. Cornell Global Perspectives is an imprint of Cornell University's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The works examine critical global challenges, often from an interdisciplinary perspective, and are intended for a non-specialist audience. The Distinguished Speaker series presents edited transcripts of talks delivered at Cornell, both in the original language and in translation.
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• Les deux îles
• Vivre pour les autres
• La triple peine des hibakusha
• Vocation
• De l'école à la guerre
• Les deux visages de l'atome
• Les années de vérité
• Sous le vent des centrales
• Santé et droits de l'homme.

"Le 11 mars 2011, soixante-six ans après Hiroshima et Nagasaki, le Japon a connu une terrible catastrophe nucléaire et immédiatement, comme en 1945, les mécanismes du secret et de la désinformation se sont mis en place. Face au silence complice des politiques et des industriels, une frêle silhouette presque centenaire s'est dressée : le docteur Shuntaro Hida, médecin présent en 1945 à Hiroshima dans les heures qui ont suivi l'explosion atomique. Témoin direct des effets redoutables de l'irradiation externe puis, au cours des années qui ont suivi, médecin des victimes de la contamination interne (les particules radioactives que l'on ingère ou inhale), le Dr Hida s'est battu toute sa vie pour faire reconnaître les ravages de l'atome et les droits des victimes. Le cinéaste Marc Petitjean, qui l'avait déjà suivi en 2005 pour son film Blessures atomiques, est retourné le voir en 2012. À travers son histoire, il nous fait découvrir l'ampleur du mensonge atomique, depuis Hiroshima les victimes utilisées comme des cobayes, le secret-défense opposé à toute investigation... jusqu'à Fukushima : les seuils d'alerte manipulés, et les déchets radioactifs disséminés... Ce témoignage puissant nous ouvre les yeux sur la réalité accablante de sept décennies de nucléaire militaire et civil au Japon."--Page 4 of cover.

"In the fictional Nagahima prefecture, Yoichi Ono (Jun Murakami) lives a peaceful life with his wife Izumi (Megumi Kagurazaka), and his parents Yasuhiko (Isao Natsuyagi) and Chieko (Naoko Otani), on the family's small farm. One day, an earthquake disrupts the calm, causing the reactor at a nearby nuclear power plant to explode. The Nagashima community is directly within the twenty-kilometre evacuation radius - except for the Ono farm. Hounted by memories of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, in which evacuees were forced out of their homes permanently, the Onos are faced with a terrible decision: stay and risk the possibility of radiation poisoning, or leave the home their family spent generations building."--Container.