This year's rainy season is lasting longer than in usual years in Japan. My hometown has few natural disasters in its nature of the locality, but some areas in Japan get flooded almost yearly. Atami City near Tokyo got huge landslides the other day and several dozen people were killed or are still missing. Atami City is one of the famous tourist spots in Japan. People in the city have already got damages from the pandemic and furthermore they got this disaster.
There is a massive solar power plant near the trigger point of the landslides. People started to say the plant had something to do with the landslides. The solar panels are from China and would be produced by the slave labor of the Uighur. The governor of the prefecture to which Atami City belongs has long been questioned if he receives something from China. He approved the construction plan of the solar power plant and the landslides started from the side of the plant.
The landslides are said to be a "man-made" accident now. The mainstream media don't report the issue, but the examination into the cause of the landslides has just started. The mainstream media keeps quiet about this issue. They seem to have lost their values.
(Vocabulary)
nature of the locality 土地柄
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