The Sea of Japan is NOT a Garbage Disposal

Between mid-December 2009 and the end of March 2010, there have been at least 22,194 polyethylene tanks washed ashore on Japan's western coast facing the Sea of Japan. This is 5,235 more than recorded a year ago. Some of these tanks have been found to contain harmful substances such as hydrogen peroxide and nitrous acid.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been looking into the matter for years but without much progress. I suspect this won't be resolved unless the source country actually takes serious action to prevent it from happening. It has already been over ten years since tens of thousands of these started arriving on Japan's shores. The total is well over a million

We know who is responsible. Of the 22,194 tanks collected in the past three and a half months, at least 10,915 had Korean writing on them. So before arguing that the Sea of Japan should be called "East Sea" (it shouldn't) and forcefully taking over Takeshima (Korea has refused to appear at the International Court of Justice since 1954 to settle this, because they know they will lose), STOP POLLUTING.