Tokyo Chrome Desert

In 1976, a year before the issue was still being discussed in the media, Yamamura and his crew visited Horie-cho, Edogawa-ku, the “town of hexavalent chromium,” and, based on Noriaki Tsuchimoto's extensive data, traced the chromium that was dumped in various places in the Tokyo metropolitan area since the Taisho Era.

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