四よっ日か市いち喘ぜん息そく

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.

• 四よっ日か市いち喘ぜん息そくは四よん大だい公こう害がい病びょうの一ひとつに数かぞえられている。

  Yokkaichi asthma is counted as one of the four major pollution-related diseases.

• 四よっ日か市いち喘ぜん息そくの患かん者じゃは長なが年ねん、補ほ償しょうを求もとめて闘たたかってきた。

  Patients with Yokkaichi asthma fought for compensation for many years.