With almost 2½ years having passed since the Fukushima No. 1 plant imploded, medical schools are seeking to improve the treatment of people exposed to the radiation spewed by the wrecked reactors.
Makiko Orita, a 26-year-old Nagasaki University graduate student, is in the vanguard of the pursuit, serving on a one-year program as an adviser for evacuees who returned to Kawauchi in Fukushima Prefecture.
The village was completely evacuated after the March 2011 quake and tsunami ripped into the No. 1 power plant, causing three reactors to suffer core meltdowns.