In Focus: Japanese Leaders Say Radioactive Waste May Have Contributed To Creation Of Giant Monsters

TOKYO--Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto announced Tuesday that radioactive waste recently discovered in Japan's Nihon prefecture may have contributed to the development of kaiju--translated as "strange, mysterious beast-animal supernatural giant warrior-monsters"--whose many battles have wreaked havoc throughout the Western world and Japan since the late 1950s.

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