Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

The rock used in this study was lidate Granite, which was taken from a quarry in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. lidate Granite is a coarse-grained rock of average grain size of 1.5mm and is composed of 37.1% quartz, 34.0% K-feldspar, 6.3% plagioclase and other minerals. 

All the wild mushrooms were collected in Ibaraki, Tochigi, and Fukushima prefectures, Japan, except for one >ecimen of Morchella esculenta, which was collected and air dried in Canada. Cultivated mushrooms were obtained from Dr. A. Sekiya of which Forestry and Fmest Products Research Institute, Japan. All mushrooms were lyophilized after removal of stray materials. Fragments of dried mushroom (10 mg and 50 mg) were bioassayed by standard procedures (Figure 3). Because of its sensitivity to various chemicals, lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. cv. 

Materials. The following shellfish specimens were collected for toxin analysis from the northeastern part of Honshu, Japan, during the infestation period the mussel Mytilus edulis at Miyagi Prefecture, the scallop Patinopeoten yessoensis at Aomori Prefecture, the short-necked clam Tapes japonioa at Fukushima Prefecture, and Gom-phina melanaegis at Ibaraki Prefecture. 

Hirai, O., S. Akiyama, K. Ono and H. Kawakatsu (1984). Manufacturing Trial of Art and Packing Paper Utilized the Odds and Ends of Tgusa , Report of the Fukushima Industrial Research Institute of Fukushima Prefecture 1983, Fukushima, Japan, pp. 49-53. 

Fukushima H, Gomyoda M, Kaneko S Wild animals as the source of infection with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Contrib Microbiol Immunol 1991 12 1—4. 

Fukushima Prefecture Agricultural Research Station. 1989. Effect of Long Term Fertilization Management on Physical, Chemical and Biological Properties of Soli," Research Report, Japan. 

Tazawa, J. and Niigata Pre-Tertiary Research Group (1999) Permian hrachiopods from the Okutadami area, near the boundary between Niigata and Fukushima Prefectures, central Japan and their tectonic implications.of the Geological Society of Japan, 105, 729-732 (in Japanese). 

Soil samples were collected from pollution-free sites (6 paddy fields, 7 upland fields and 12 forests) in Hokkaido, Fukushima, Shizuoka, Saga Prefectures in Japan and analyzed for bismuth . Average, maximum and minimum values of bismuth and antimony concentrations obtained in dry base were 0.34,0.12 and 0.91 figBig, and 0.37,0.13 and 0.91 fig Sbg respectively. 

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