About the Authors

Tomoki Nakaya

nakaya@lt.ritsumei.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Geography and Institute of Disaster Mitigation for Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Kaori Honjo

Affiliation Global Collaboration Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Tomoya Hanibuchi

Affiliation School of International Liberal Studies, Chukyo University, Toyota, Aichi, Japan

Ai Ikeda

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyasu Iso

Affiliation Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Manami Inoue

Affiliations Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Norie Sawada

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Shoichiro Tsugane

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Division, Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening, National Cancer Center, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TN KH TH AI HI. Performed the experiments: TN KH TH AI HI MI NS ST. Analyzed the data: TN KH TH AI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HI MI NS ST. Wrote the paper: TN. Revised the article: TN KH TH AI HI MI NS ST.