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.
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