FEATURE: Discarded chemical weapons materials from war torment residents over time

Discarded chemical weapons materials from war torment residents over time

At the beginning of 2002, unusual symptoms appeared in Ryuji, a 6-month-old boy living in a small town in Ibaraki Prefecture north of Tokyo. The infant could not…

FEATURE: Discarded chemical weapons materials from war torment residents over time

In 2002, unusual symptoms suddenly appeared in Ryuji, a 6-month-old boy in a small town in Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo. The case, later known as the Kamisu Arsenic Case, involved poison leaking from buried chemical raw materials that contaminated nearby well water.