The author selects the following paper as the most influence paper (MIP) in the field of risk governance: van Asselt, M.B.A. and Renn, O. (2011) Risk Governance, Journal of Risk Research, 14(4): 431–449. This article provides a brief overview of the paper and discusses its significance in terms of resisting excessive articulation. One of the key messages of the paper is that non-simple risks should not be treated in the same way as simple risks. Whereas the conventional framework of risk assessment and management has sought to manage intractable risks by making them calculatable and dealing with their incertitude only inside some limited expert communities, risk governance highlights the need for addressing squarely their complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity, and thus opening them up for broader actors. Risk governance can be understood as an intellectual movement toward integrating prudently facts with values, analysis with deliberation, science with politics, while acknowledging a certain role of articulating them.

Efficient evidence-based prevention and decontamination measures are important for sustainable infection control. In order to “visualize the risk of each infection route” and “propose products suitable for reducing the risk of infection according to the situation,” we constructed a simulation model that can evaluate the risk of each infection route. We utilized the constructed simulation model to visualize the infection risk in “office” and “home living room” situations and to evaluate the effectiveness of countermeasures and products. In both office and home living room settings, the two most common routes of infection without countermeasures were hand contact and spray. The risk in the living room can be significantly reduced by combining several countermeasures.

This study investigated a series of press releases related to the application of literature inspection as the first step in selecting a disposal site for high-level radioactive waste in Sutsu-town and Kamoenai-village. We collected the articles from the database of each newspaper company; Hokkaido, Yomiuri, Asahi, and Mainichi. The results indicated that the contents differed between the local press and the whole country press. In the whole country presses, they simplified the various inhabitants’ views and local contexts, which are complicated and thus would not be understood by the dichotomy of approval or opponent. The phenomenon was described that the issue, which primarily should be treated nationwide, is getting narrowed down to be localized.