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Changing Emotions About Fukushima Related to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Accident—How Rumors Determined People’s Attitudes: Social Media Sentiment Analysis

Changing Emotions About Fukushima Related to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Accident—How Rumors Determined People’s Attitudes: Social Media Sentiment Analysis

In this study, we selected statements about radiation containing the words “radiation” (放射線), “radioactivity”(放射能), and/or “radioactive substances” (放射性物質) that were posted on Twitter in Japanese between the occurrence of the Great East Japan Earthquake at 12 AM JST on March 11, 2011, until 1 year later (ie, 11:59 PM JST on March 10, 2012) using approximately 19 million tweets.

Shin Hasegawa, Teppei Suzuki, Ayako Yagahara, Reiko Kanda, Tatsuo Aono, Kazuaki Yajima, Katsuhiko Ogasawara

J Med Internet Res 2020;22(9):e18662

Analysis of the Regionality of the Number of Tweets Related to the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Disaster: Content Analysis

Analysis of the Regionality of the Number of Tweets Related to the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Disaster: Content Analysis

However, it became a problem at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that the information that spread rapidly included misleading reports such as claims that iodine is useful for treating radioactivity as a replacement of stable iodine. Stable iodine is used for thyroid exposure reduction under a doctor’s prescription, but iodine was used for a person who did not have to take it. Taking in a toxic substance included in iodine and iodine in large quantities caused a health risk.

Tomohiro Aoki, Teppei Suzuki, Ayako Yagahara, Shin Hasegawa, Shintaro Tsuji, Katsuhiko Ogasawara

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2018;4(4):e70