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Atomic radiation standards exclude many victims

Minister: A-bomb disease law too narrow TOKYO, Jan. 15 (UPI) — Japan needs to recognize more people who suffer from radiation disease caused by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nation’s health minister said.Minister Akira Nagatsuma called for a revision of the law governing radiation illnesses caused when the United States bombed Japan in August 1945 near the end of World War II, The Mainichi Daily News reported Friday.

“Without legal revision, further relaxation (of the standards) would be difficult,” Nagatsuma told a group of people who represent radiation victims.
The law last was revised in 1981 to give more medical benefits to atomic bomb survivors, who since have argued the legislation too narrowly defines who was harmed by radiation from the bombs.

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January 17, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, Legal | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive