Abstract
The Japanese Journal of Health Physics has published many articles related to the 2011 accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Among them, as of March 2022, 40 articles in the field of environmental monitoring had been published. These articles cover a wide range of topics, including environmental radiation, radioactivity monitoring, and decontamination methods developed after the accident. The papers presented in this journal and reviewed in this article reflect the experiences of experts in radiation protection and radioecology, and they also serve as a record of the practical challenges faced at the time. Readers are encouraged to use this review as a gateway to the original articles.