Sugenoya elected Matsumoto mayor
TOKYO, Japan - Akira Sugenoya, a doctor who helped victims in Belarus of the world's worst nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union in 1986, was elected mayor of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on March 14. Sugenoya, a former assistant professor at Shinshu University, quit the university in 1995 and treated thyroid gland cancer victims in Belarus for five and a half years without payment. (Kyodo)
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