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.Japan produced chemical weapons during the war at a secret poison gas factory on an island nearly 900 kilometers from Kamisu, and over time, it caused residents undue suffering.>>Read the full article with visuals on Spotlight Japan>>READ FULL ARTICLE