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- LETTERS, Page 4Japan and the Environment
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- It is high time that the world focus on Japan's lack of
- international environmental conscience, as reported in your
- article "Putting the Heat on Japan" (ENVIRONMENT, July 10). But
- a real change in Japanese attitudes toward conservation outside
- its borders depends on the development of a strong grass-roots
- voice and support for ecology within the country. Otherwise,
- the government will continue to resist outside pressures.
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- Yuri Kusuda Bethesda, Md.
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- I am from Sarawak, Malaysia, and read with outrage and
- sorrow the report on Japanese logging activities in my native
- land. An aerial view of Borneo used to reveal seemingly endless
- stretches of green jungles and brown, meandering rivers. Now
- there are vast, empty tracts denuded of trees. I wasn't aware
- that much of the Malaysian lumber is used for making throwaway
- forms in construction work. Can't Japan come up with a man-made
- substitute? That nation must be compelled to act more
- responsibly.
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- Rose Wong-MacMichael Bradenton, Fla.
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