{"id":45807,"date":"2022-06-27T08:06:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T23:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/27\/garbage-island-no-more-how-one-japanese-community-triumphed-over-a-toxic-waste-dump"},"modified":"2022-06-27T08:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T23:06:58","slug":"garbage-island-no-more-how-one-japanese-community-triumphed-over-a-toxic-waste-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45807","title":{"rendered":"Garbage island no more: how one Japanese community triumphed over a toxic waste dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teshima \u2013 site of Japan\u2019s worst case of illegal dumping of industrial waste \u2013 was saved by locals who fought relentlessly to have their beloved home restored<\/p>\n<p>Toru Ishii remembers when the shredded car tyres, batteries, and runoff the colour and consistency of treacle blighted the landscape on Teshima, his island home in Japan\u2019s inland sea. Those sights are now confined to a museum, as a reminder of how environmental destruction can unfold in plain sight, and how ordinary people can fight back.<\/p>\n<p>For several years, almost a million tonnes of industrial waste were dumped illegally on Teshima\u2019s western tip, in the worst case of its kind in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/27\/garbage-island-no-more-how-one-japanese-community-triumphed-over-a-toxic-waste-dump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teshima \u2013 site of Japan\u2019s worst case of illegal dumping of industrial waste \u2013 was saved by locals who fought relentlessly to have their beloved home restoredToru Ishii remembers when the shredded car tyres, batteries, and runoff the colour and consiste&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,88,304,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-japan","category-waste","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45808,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45807\/revisions\/45808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}