{"id":5233,"date":"2009-12-12T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=5233"},"modified":"2012-01-25T06:57:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T11:57:21","slug":"japanese-government-plans-wind-turbine-syndrome-epidemiological-study-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2009\/japanese-government-plans-wind-turbine-syndrome-epidemiological-study-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese government plans Wind Turbine Syndrome epidemiological study (Japan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Turbine-shadow-Japan-447x416-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Turbine-shadow-Japan-447x416-c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Turbine-shadow-Japan-447x416-c.jpg 447w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Turbine-shadow-Japan-447x416-c-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.istockanalyst.com\/article\/viewiStockNews\/articleid\/3670488#\"><!--more-->iStockAnalyst<\/a> (11\/28\/09)<\/p>\n<p>The Environment Ministry will launch its first major study into the influence of wind turbines on people&#8217;s health next year, it has been learned.<\/p>\n<p>Much is expected of wind power as a source of clean energy, but people living near wind power facilities are increasingly complaining of health problems. The low-frequency sound produced by the wind turbines at such facilities&#8211;sound that is difficult to discern with the naked ear&#8211;is suspected of causing such conditions as insomnia, tinnitus and hand tremors.<\/p>\n<p>Due to a lack of substantiating data, the ministry has deemed it necessary to study the matter. It will launch a four-year examination of all 1,517 wind turbines in the country in April.<\/p>\n<p>The study will try to ascertain to what extent health problems are being caused by the low-frequency sound, through such means as questioning local residents.<\/p>\n<p>It will examine the relationship between wind turbines&#8217; operating hours and the times of day when people&#8217;s health deteriorates. It also will make continual measurements of such elements as the level of the low-frequency sound.<\/p>\n<p>The study&#8217;s attempt to determine the causality between the low-frequency sound and health problems will take into account such factors as weather conditions and the distance between homes and wind power facilities.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}