Word: hikotaro
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Though Fuji's example started the uproar, the city offers no solution. Mayor Hikotaro Watanabe confronts a familiar dilemma: "To stop paper production will prove too costly a step for the city. But to let the production go on will prove too dangerous a proposition to our citizens." The prefecture has been equally unsuccessful in banishing hedoro. A first suggestion, to dredge up the sludge and dump it 200 miles offshore in the Pacific, was quickly dismissed by scientists as ecological madness. When officials next proposed to pump hedoro into "temporary repositories," one outraged citizen spoke for many...
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