Japan

Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry released the names of 10 facilities under ministry jurisdiction with potential risks from airborne asbestos fibers, The Mainichi Daily News reports.

These facilities are:

– Kasukabe Kousei Ryouyou Hospital (Saitama Prefecture), – Morishita Memorial Hospital (Kanagawa…

According to statistics compiled by Tokyo-based Ban Asbestos Network Japan (BANJAN), about 44 percent of Japanese people who have died of mesothelioma received compensation or other relief, The Mainichi Daily News reports.

BANJAN is a network of civic groups and labor…

Japan’s Education, Science and Technology Ministry said that an unnamed man who worked as researcher on a 1968 expedition to Antarctica, during which he used asbestos, has asbestosis, The Yomiuri Shimbun reports.

Now in his 70s, the former researcher had sprayed…