Abstract
Background: The Health Physics Society of Japan established a working group to obtain insights and findings from articles related to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (1F) accident, published in the Japanese Journal of Health Physics.Materials and Methods: This study describes the review results of 47 articles on opinion and others related to the 1F accident in the field other than risk communication, environmental measurement and monitoring, radiation dose measurement and assessment, radiation medicine, and radioactive waste.Results and Discussion: The reviewed articles contain various insights and issues depending on the authors’ standpoints and relevant social interests. As a result, the 1F accident-relevant articles offer various discussion points depending on the authors’ awareness of the issues and their positions, which give an opportunity to make reconsiderations on what kind of academic system health physics or radiation protection should be on the basis of the experiences from the 1F accident.Conclusion: It is crucial for the future development of the Health Physics Society of Japan and relevant academic societies and researchers to address these matters and continue to ask what health physics (or radiation protection) is.