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...affects the liver and kidneys and painfully softens the bones, has claimed over 100 lives since its symptoms were discovered in the early 1950's. But the government appears unconcerned. Although last spring officials did move to quarantine some 300 acres of pasture land and rice paddies around the Nippon Mining Company's zinc refinery, refining goes on unabated...
...fishing town of Minamata, mercury poisoning has killed 46 villagers and paralyzed or blinded more than 70 during the past two decades--yet the Nippon Nitrogen Company continues to discharge its mercury wastes into the bay. The government has mirrored the company's indifference. Japan's Economic Planning Agency suppressed a report which demonstrated that the plant's effluents are lethal...
There is no doubt that Japan will eventually recognize China. "The main thing," says Tokyo University Professor Shinkichi Eto, "is not to do anything that irritates Peking." To that end, Japan Air Lines and the Nippon Steel Corp., the country's largest steel producer, last week boycotted economic conferences with Taiwan, and five Japanese shipping lines decided to stop serving Chiang Kai-shek's island. Although two-way trade with Peking was less last year than with Taiwan ($825 million v. $955 million), it is a rare Japanese businessman who does not relish the prospect of 800 million...
There was a festive air about the 155 passengers as they boarded All Nippon Airways' Flight 58 at Chitose Airport. Most were from the sleepy town of Fuji in central Japan, members of a society of war-bereaved families who had just toured the island of Hokkaido. Half an hour later, cruising at 28,000 ft., the pilot of the Boeing 727 found himself closing in on an F-86 Sabre jet. He had time only to shout a Mayday message before his plane and the jet collided. The airliner disintegrated, showering debris for miles around and killing...
JAPAN Nukes for Nippon? Unlike recent junkets by other Administration officials, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's ten-day swing through Tokyo and Seoul seemed carefully calculated to be thoroughly unspectacular. Laird's message was the same for both allies: they could count on continued protection from the Seventh Fleet and the U.S. nuclear umbrella, but they would have to furnish "credible deterrence" on the ground themselves. Who could get upset over what amounted to yet another sales pitch for the Nixon Doctrine...