The impact of global climate change warnings and ozone depletion on the global economy has attracted many researchers in recent decades, and many international organizations have taken action in response to these problems, including co-engagement Montreal, Kyoto, and Paris treaties. The purpose of...

The assessment of the generalization of the strict hypertension definition in the 2017 ACC/AHA Hypertension Guideline from environmental condition remains sparse. The aims of this study are to investigate and compare the associations of ambient air pollution and traffic-related pollution (TRP) with ...

Air pollution has been associated with childhood neurodevelopment. However, the role of indoor air pollution, especially volatile organic compounds (VOCs), on childhood neurodevelopment has been poorly explored to date. We investigated the association between indoor air pollutants and childhood...

Long-term air pollution exposure has been linked to increased lung cancer mortality. However, little is known about whether day-to-day fluctuations in air pollution levels are in relation to lung cancer mortality, particularly in low-exposure settings. This study aimed to evaluate the short-term...

Exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with maternal and child health. Some air pollutants exhibit similar behavior in the atmosphere, and some interact with each other; thus, comprehensive assessments of individual air pollutants are required. In this study, we developed national-scale...

Since the 1970s, Japan has promulgated a series of soil pollution prevention and control laws, which have been continuously improved and revised according to the changes of population, resources and economic structure. Thus, Japan has gradually established a set of systematic soil pollution...

Ambient pollutants and occupational pollutants may cause and exacerbate various lung and respiratory diseases. This review describes lung and respiratory diseases in relation to ambient pollutants, particularly particulate matter (PM_2.5), and occupational air pollutants, excluding communicable...

Nuclear pollution caused by nuclear power plant accident has great influence on local living environment and forest development. How to effectively solve the problems has become an important subject for environmental scientists and forest experts. This paper takes the forest pollution by nuclear in ...

Background and aim: Short-term associations between air pollution and mortality have been well reported in Japan, but the historical changes in mortality risk remain unknown. We examined temporal changes in the mortality risks associated with short-term exposure to four criteria air pollutants in...

Rapid economic growth in Asian countries has raised concerns about the influence of air pollutants transported to Japan by westerly winds. We coupled a gas exchange device (GED) with a tandem inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS/MS) to enable direct introduction of PM_2.5 to ICP and...