Word: noirozeh
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...Japan, where rain is sometimes really radioactive, a new term, "radiation neurosis" (hoshano noirozeh) has been coined to express a state of extreme nervousness which affects many Japanese after U.S., Soviet and British bomb tests. In understandably jittery Hiroshima, welfare agencies publish bulletins after each rain to assure the citizens that it is not dangerous. In Osaka schoolchildren are told to wear plastic raincoats with hoods. One school held drills to teach the children how to hold their umbrellas so that their hands and faces would not get spattered. Policemen in Itami demanded plastic gloves because their service raincoats...
Japanese scientists have tried to cure hoshano noirozeh by statements that the radioactive rain at its present strength will not hurt anyone. The public thinks it knows better...
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