Word: yokohama
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...newspaper editorialized that G.N.P. "really means gross national pollution." Another paper investigated each of Japan's 46 prefectures and found that all but two suffer from kogai-environmental disruption. Cars in Tokyo cause an eye-stinging photochemical smog. Nearly every major city in Japan has its version of "Yokohama asthma," a wheezing caused by air pollution. Noxious industrial wastes wash around the bays of Tokyo, Osaka and Dokai in northern Kyushu. Amid the public outcry against kogai, a 15-year-old student recently scolded Premier Eisaku Sato for taking no action against pollution. "Isn't the government treating...
...said, should lay out as much as $10 billion, if necessary, to construct a "paradise" for Vietnamese victims of the war. Today Matsuda, who once owned an apartment house and a prosperous mail-order business in body-building equipment, is alone and broke, driving a truck in Yokohama. Because of his idealistic extravagance, his wife divorced him, taking their sons with...