By YURI OIWA/ Staff Writer
June 7, 2016 at 16:15 JST
FUKUSHIMA—An additional 15 people in Fukushima Prefecture who were 18 or younger when the Fukushima nuclear disaster occurred have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, including a child who was 5 at the time.
Fukushima prefectural authorities said June 6 that the new diagnoses, which were confirmed between January and March, raises the total number of confirmed cases to 131.
However, the prefecture’s review panel has not (…)