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Authorities have been working to clean up an industrial park where they say a small steel company appears to have smelted scrap metal mixed with cesium, contaminating various nearby factories.

ASIA PACIFIC

Nov 14, 2025

How the U.S. ended up with radioactive shrimp and sneakers from Indonesia

The case lays bare shortcomings with oversight in Indonesia’s growing scrap-metal trade and underscores how a single industrial mishap can reverberate through global supply chains.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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