Asian Groups Slam Japan's Waste Colonialism
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| STOP TOXIC WASTE TRADE. Environmental health and justice activists satirized the famed flag-raising during the battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. In this parody of the celebrated Iwo Jima scene held in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila, activists dressed as Japanese bureaucrats and merchants raised the flag with the yen sign in a mountain of trash to demonstrate Tokyo's scheme to set up waste colonies in Asia through bilateral trade and investment treaties. Photo by Gigie Cruz (GAIA) |
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