noun
Yokkaichi asthma
Refers to the severe air-pollution-related asthma that occurred in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, in the 1960s. A well-known environmental disease in Japan.
四日市喘息は四大公害病の一つに数えられている。
Yokkaichi asthma is counted as one of the four major pollution-related diseases.
四日
Patients with Yokkaichi asthma fought for compensation for many years.