background: in the aftermath of the great east japan earthquake, most of the areas in yamagata prefecture experienced a serious power failure lasting for approximately 24 hours. a number of households were subsequently poisoned with carbon monoxide (co) due to various causes. in this study, we conducted a survey of co poisoning during the disaster. methods: a questionnaire regarding co poisonin...

What counts as global health? There has been limited discourse to date on the ways in which country-level contexts may shape positioning in global health agendas. By reviewing Japan’s response to the refugee crisis, we demonstrate a clash between rhetoric and action on global responsibility, and suggest that cultural and historical factors may be related to the ways of perceiving and acting upo...

Japan Environmental Sanitation Center, 10-6 Yotsuyakamicho, Kawasaki, 210-0828 National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, 305-8506, Japan Kitakyushu City Institute of Environmental Sciences, Kitakyushu, 804-0082, Japan University of Yamanashi, Kofu, 400-8511, Japan Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Kobe, 6540037, Japan Ministry of the Environme...

56 AI MAGAZINE Group A: LAI (Université Carlos III De Madrid), FC MELLON (CMU), RM KNIGHTS (RMIT), ICHIMURA (Kinki University, Japan). Group B: RIEKKI (University of Oulu, Finland), CMUNITED (CMU), HEADLESS CHICKENS (RMIT), NIT-STONES (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan). Group C: MICROB (Université de Paris VI), BALCH (Georgia Institute of Technology), PROJECT MAGI (Aoyama University, Japan...

Departments of Human Genetics and Pediatrics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan; Division of Medical Genetics, Saitama Children's Medical Center, Iwatsuki, Japan; Division of Medical Genetics, Kanagawa Children's Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan; Department of Pediatrics, Tenshi Hospital, Sapporo, Japan; Department of Pediatrics, Dokkyo University School...

1Department of Pediatrics, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; 2Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan; 3Department of Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan; 4Children’s Medical Center, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya First Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; 5Kanagawa Children’s Hospital...

1Department of Pediatrics, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan; 2Department of Hematology/Oncology, Gunma Children’s Medical Center, Gunma, Japan; 3Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan; 4Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan; 5Department of Pediatrics, Kagoshima Ci...

1 Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, 2 Department of Biodivesity, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan, 3 Marine Works Japan LTD, Yokosuka, Japan, 4 Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, 5 Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technolog...