Wind from China
2008.11.09 15:00

They say Japan is an industrialised nation. As a matter of fact there are many factories located off the coast. We have been sometimes sufferred from polluted air, especially from the one called 'photochemical smog'. We used to have a severe state in that. Now the contents of smoke is very regulated and said to be safer than those of in many years ago. But still we have smog problems. We started claiming that the polluted air is arriving from newly industrialised coastal China since few years ago. Japanese people are good at attributing to next nations when it comes to something unpleasant. Japanese local government regulates the quantity of smoke emission by the degree of polluted air. If the harmful matterial exceeds the standard, factories have to stop or decrease the production to meet the criteria. Japanese factories increase production again after it was restricted, insisting that because it is owing to Chinese factories to exceed the level of pollution. The gross of polluted material, that matters, no matter who comes up the pollution.