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...burning garbage may have tainted more than Italy's image. The trash emergency may be linked to elevated toxin levels in the Naples region's famous buffalo-milk mozzarella. Italian health officials have recently been forced to check hundreds of factories that produce the cheese after South Korea and Japan temporarily banned imports and the E.U. threatened to do the same...
MUSIC IN TOKYO On May 17, Tokyo's Sumida Triphony Hall plays host to a powerhouse duo of Japan's classical music scene, as celebrated conductor Seiji Ozawa meets virtuoso pianist Ayako Uehara. Accompanied by the New Japan Philharmonic, Uehara will perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, displaying the superb technique and dynamism that helped her become the first woman to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition. The njp will follow that performance with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique", a piece known as Ozawa's specialty. www.njp.or.jp by Yuki...
...Chinese government says that Japan left some 2 million chemical munitions - shells, bombs and barrels of deadly agents such as mustard gas, phosgene, hydrogen cyanide and lewisite. The Japanese Cabinet Office, which handles issues related to the weapons, declined to estimate the number, but Japanese officials have previously said there were at least 700,000. According to the Japanese government's Abandoned Chemical Weapons Office, most of the weapons are in northeastern China, but some have been found as far south as Guangdong Province. Buried in fields and submerged in streams by the defeated Japanese Imperial Army in 1945, they...
...obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention to remove and destroy all such munitions left in China by 2012. Minoru Shibuya, the Japanese ambassador to the Netherlands, where the convention is enforced by the Organization for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons in the Hague, said that "the government of Japan continues to attach top priority" to the project. According to an Organization spokesperson, Japan has reported "no foreseen delays" to meeting its cleanup deadline. But Japan's record does not leave critics confident: The current 2012 deadline is an extension granted after Japan missed its initial deadline of 2007. Key disposal...
...Smithson, a senior fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, D.C., said that the technical difficulties and expenses for the cleanup are substantial, but that Japan has the technological base to get on with the project - if the political will is in place. "Not surprisingly," Smithson said, "the Chinese and some outside observers have criticized the snail's pace of destruction efforts." That pace has just gotten even slower, highlighting the difficulty the two countries continue to face in putting a nasty past behind them...