2/5/13, "Suffocating smog from China reaches regions of Japan," AFP, Tokyo, Taipei Times
"The suffocating smog that blanketed swathes of China is now hitting parts of Japan, sparking warnings yesterday of health risks for the
young and the sick.
The Japanese Ministry of the Environment’s Web
site has been overloaded as worried users log on to try to find out
what is coming their way.
“Access to our air pollution monitoring
system has been almost impossible since last week and the telephone here
has been constantly ringing because worried people keep asking us about
the impact on health,” a ministry official said.
Pictures of
Beijing and other Chinese cities shrouded in thick, choking smog played
out across television screens in Japan last week.
News programs
have broadcast maps showing a swirl of pollution gathering strength
across China and then spreading out over the ocean toward Japan.
Pinks,
reds and oranges that denote the highest concentrations form a finger
of smog that inches upward to the main southern island of Kyushu.
Relations between Tokyo and Beijing are already strained, over the
sovereignty of the Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台), claimed by Taiwan, China and
Japan, which calls them the Senkakus. On the streets of Tokyo, reaction
was tart.
“China is our neighbor and all sorts of problems happen
between us all the time,” Takaharu Abiko, 50, said. “It is very
worrying. This is dangerous pollution, like poison, and we can’t protect
ourselves. It’s scary.”
Japanese officials were coy about lumping
all the blame on their huge neighbor, but Yasushi Nakajima of the
environment ministry said: “We can’t deny there is an impact from
pollution in China.”
Air pollution over the west of Japan has
exceeded government limits over the past few days, with tiny particulate
matter a problem, Atsushi Shimizu of Japan’s National Institute for
Environmental Studies (NIES) said.
Prevailing winds from the west bring airborne particles from the Asian mainland, he said.
Of
specific concern is the concentration of particles 2.5 micrometers or
less in diameter, which has been as high as 50 micrograms per cubic
meter of air over recent days in northern Kyushu. The government’s
safety limit is 35 micrograms.
Yellow sand from the deserts of
Mongolia and China is a known source of these particles, as are exhausts
from cars and smoke from factories.
“At this time of year they
are definitely not yellow sand, so they’re toxic particles,” Shimizu
said, adding that “people with respiratory diseases should be careful.”
Toshihiko Takemura, an associate professor of Kyushu University who
runs another air pollution monitoring site, said “the impact of air pollution originating from China on Japan was scientifically discovered more than a decade ago.”
“Especially in Kyushu, the level of air
pollution has been detectable in everyday lives since a few years ago,”
he told reporters. “People in eastern and northern Japan are now
belatedly noticing the cross-border air pollution.”
Takemura added
that pollution in Japan over the past few days has not been quite as
bad as it was in February 2011, when “very hazy days continued for
several days in western Japan.”" via Drudge
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