Was stable iodine distributed post-Fukushima by the Japanese government? In Canadian Medical Association Journal: Japanese Response to Fukushima Even Worse than Communist Russian Response to Chernobyl … “The Japanese Government Was Lying Through Its Teeth”, there are a lot of claims that the Fukushima dai-ichi incident is worse than the government claims, possibly too many to examine. However, there's one claim that goes directly against what I'd heard and stated. It says > Ruff similarly charges that the government has mismanaged the file and provided the public with misinformation. As an example, he cites early reports that stable iodine had been distributed to children and had worked effectively, when, “in fact, iodine wasn’t given to anyone.” Was stable iodine distributed to citizens of Japan likely to be affected by Fukushima dai-ichi?

Source: Report of Japanese Government to the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety - The Accident at TEPCO's Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations -

> on March 16, the Director-General of the Nuclear Emergency Response Local Headquarters instructed the Governor of Fukushima Prefecture and others to have residents take stable iodine when evacuating from within the 20 km radius of the nuclear power plant

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> But as a matter of fact **no residents took stable iodine based on this instruction** because the evacuation had already been completed at the time the instruction was issued.