This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as an ‘Accepted Article’, doi:10.2188/jea.JE20200208 Copyright © 2020 Ahmed Arafa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Received May 19, 2020; accepted July 29, 2020; released online August 15, 2020 Accepted Version 1 Original Article Title: Night Work, Rotating Shift Work and the Risk of Cancer in Japanese Men and Women: the JACC Study Running Title: Shift Work and Cancer Incidence Authors: Ahmed Arafa 1,2 ; Ehab S Eshak 1,3 ; Hiroyasu Iso 1 ; Isao Muraki 1 ; Akiko Tamakoshi 4 ; for the JACC Study Group 1 Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan 2 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt 3 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt 4 Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Correspondence: Hiroyasu Iso, MD, Ph.D., MPH, Professor of Public Health, Department of Social Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita-shi, Osaka 565- 0871, Japan. E-mail: iso@pbhel.med.osaka-u.ac.jp Tables: 3, Figures: 1, References: 56 Abstract word count: 221, Text word count: 3107 Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.