Where To Stream Journeys in Japan Season 2018 Episode 2
Yokkaichi Bringing Back the Skies
- Aired February 6, 2018
- 30 Min
On this journey, we visit Yokkaichi in northern Mie Prefecture, central Japan. This industrial city, with a population of just over 300,000, is home to Japan's first petrochemical complex. It's known as the place where air pollution from sulfurous acid gas emissions caused respiratory diseases, called "Yokkaichi asthma", in the 1960's. Thanks to sweeping environmental protection measures, the environment has been vastly cleaned up, and the petrochemical complex has become a source of...