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Japan's Lessons on the Economy and the Environment: Our Pollution Experience Part 2 of 4

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Uploaded by on Aug 25, 2009

Japan is recognized as economic leader and technology nowadays. However in the course of economic growth after World War II, Japan had earned reputation of heavily polluted country. Japan suffered from all kinds of pollution because of the heavy industrialization at the expense of environment and people's health; Minamata disease, Yokkaichi asthma, Itai Itai disease are just a few well known examples. This program looks back how Japan has suffered from the pollution, then concur the problem without damaging the economic growth. It analyzes what cost more for companies, pursuing profit without care for the environment, or investing in the environmental measure at the very first stage.

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  • @ednakano2010 It just goes to show you have to bite the bullet and trudge through these industrial times to get to where technology and money are so plentiful that the pollution level will swing back like it's already been doing in USA since the 70's.

  • This is 50 years ago story and Now Japan has most advanced technology.

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