Shun'ichi Yamashita is a Japanese medical scientist serving as dean and professor at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Nagasaki University.
21 Facts About Shunichi Yamashita
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Shin'ichi Shunichi Yamashita was born in Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture, in 1952.
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Shunichi Yamashita's mother was a hibakusha who survived the atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki on August 9,1945.
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Shunichi Yamashita is a descendant of Kakure Kirishitans in Urakami who kept their faith clandestinely more than 200 years under severe persecution from the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Shunichi Yamashita himself is Catholic and belongs to Shiroyama Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Nagasaki.
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Shunichi Yamashita is a member of the Japan Catholic Doctor Association and serves as president of its branch in Nagasaki.
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From his childhood, Shunichi Yamashita respected Albert Schweitzer and Paul Takashi Nagai.
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Shunichi Yamashita's mottos are "Reverence for life" and "Love thy neighbor as thyself".
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At first, Shunichi Yamashita was attracted to tropical medicine because he respected Hideyo Noguchi.
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Shunichi Yamashita later studied at Nagasaki Prefectural Nagasaki Kita High School.
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Shunichi Yamashita graduated from the faculty of medicine at Nagasaki University in 1978.
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Shunichi Yamashita finished a doctoral course at the graduate school of the same university in 1984.
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Shunichi Yamashita earned a doctoral degree in medicine in 1989 and was installed as a professor of the faculty of medicine at Nagasaki University in the following year.
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From 1991 onward, Shunichi Yamashita participated in a health research project supported by the Nippon Foundation.
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Shunichi Yamashita eventually concluded the effects of radiation in the area as follows: "Apart from the dramatic increase in thyroid cancer incidence among those exposed to radiation at a young age, there is no clearly demonstrated increase in the incidence of solid cancers or leukemia due to radiation in the most affected populations".
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From August 8 to August 10,2010, Soka University Peace Research Institute had a research study in Nagasaki, and Shunichi Yamashita lectured the participants.
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On May 24,2011, Shunichi Yamashita was invited by the Komeito Party's election campaign office of Koriyama City, Fukuhsima Prefecture and lectured there.
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Meanwhile, as the president of the Japan Thyroid Association, Shunichi Yamashita wrote a letter dated March 24,2011 to its members that thyroid blockage was not necessary, citing the opinion of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine.
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Shunichi Yamashita concluded the situation as "It is an endurance contest between me and people in Fukushima".
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On March 11,2012, the one-year anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Shunichi Yamashita spoke to the students, faculty and staff at Khalifa University, UAE.
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In February 2013, Shunichi Yamashita informed Nature by email that he would quit his post as the head of Fukushima prefecture's massive survey at the end of March.