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The appeal continues: In recent years, the mountains have been cut down indiscriminately, and the poisonous smoke has turned the water source into red soil, causing the river's flow to change drastically, flooding frequently, rising to several feet in height, and the poisonous streams have overflowed in all directions. The areas where the poison has seeped into the four prefectures of Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, and Saitama have reached tens of thousands of hectares of land downstream. Fish have died of starvation, the countryside has been devastated, and hundreds of thousands of people have lost their property, lost their nutrition, or are left without work and starving, with nothing to eat and no medicine for when they get sick. Old people and children have fallen into ditches and died of starvation, and those in the prime of their working lives have left and gone to other countries, becoming separated from each other. In this state, the fertile rice fields and land of 20 years ago have now completely changed, and some have become a miserable wasteland of yellow thatch and white reeds as far as the eye can see. This vassal saw that the disaster of the mining pollution had been continuing to flow without any end in sight, and that the suffering of the people had reached its peak, and he was in agony and grief, feeling as if he had nowhere to put his hands and feet.