Dear Environment Minister Tetsuo Saito,
In her groundbreaking work "Silent Spring," American writer Rachel Carson lamented a lack of birds and wildlife in her neighborhood one year. That spring, she thought it strange that no birds were singing or animals chattering. Later, Carson discovered that the wildlife had disappeared following a massive pesticide-spraying campaign. The silence prompted her to write one of the most important books of the 20th century.
This spring, my first in Japan, it is a similar story.