OTSU, SHIGA PREF. – A civic group filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors and police Thursday against four individuals over their alleged involvement in dumping in Shiga Prefecture radioactive wood waste produced at a plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
Norio Ishida, a former professor of environmental toxicology at Kyoto University and one of the five members of the civic group, alleges that similar dumping has taken place in other parts of the country.
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