Acknowledgements
The findings and conclusions of this article are solely the
responsibility of the authors and do not represent the official views of
the Ministry of the Environment. The authors are grateful to all
participants in the study.
Members of the JECS Group as of 2019: Michihiro Kamijima (principal
investigator, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan), Shin Yamazaki
(National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan), Yukihiro
Ohya (National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan),
Reiko Kishi (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan), Nobuo Yaegashi
(Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), Koichi Hashimoto (Fukushima Medical
University, Fukushima, Japan), Chisato Mori (Chiba University, Chiba,
Japan), Shuichi Ito (Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan), Zentaro
Yamagata (University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Japan), Hidekuni Inadera
(University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan), Takeo Nakayama (Kyoto University,
Kyoto, Japan), Hiroyasu Iso (Osaka University, Suita, Japan), Masayuki
Shima (Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan), Youichi Kurozawa
(Tottori University, Yonago, Japan), Narufumi Suganuma (Kochi
University, Nankoku, Japan), Koichi Kusuhara (University of Occupational
and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan), and Takahiko Katoh
(Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan).
Details of Ethics Approval: The Japan Environment and
Children’s Study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ministry of
the Environment’s Institutional Review Board on Epidemiological Studies
and by the Ethics Committees of Fukushima Medical University (Approved
date: May/2014. No1165).