In Japan, cadmium is well known as the causative agent of Itai-itai disease, and numerous epidemiological studies have highlighted its role as a risk factor for atherosclerosis.

In Japan, cadmium is well known as the causative agent of Itai-itai disease, and numerous epidemiological studies have highlighted its role as a risk factor for atherosclerosis.

Efforts have been previously made to reduce the quantity of cadmium in rice through methods like importing clean soil, water management, and mixing contaminated soil with biochar and lime.

Rice is a staple food for nearly half the world’s population. However, it accumulates more cadmium from the soil than other cereals like barley and wheat. Reports estimate that 40–65% of our ...

Noda joined NHK in 2007. She has worked as a reporter at the Network and Digital News Division since 2019. In Toyama, where she was first assigned, she covered itai-itai disease, one of Japan’s ...

In the early 1970s, in lawsuits regarding the four major pollution-caused illnesses: Minamata disease mercury poisoning, Niigata Minamata disease, cadmium-caused "itai-itai" disease and Yokkaichi ...