While the article insists that South Korea and China are dumping trashes on the shores of Japan, it does not provide any supporting data or grounds.
All it does is just throwing unrelated pieces of information that provide no ground for the claim in the article.
For example, it mentions one Wall Street Journal article as an evidence for China being the dumper for Japan.
But, that article, aside from the fact that there is neither clear citation nor references, builds connection between China being the biggest producer of marine debris and the dumper for Japan.
This is also true for Korea. While the article cites Japanese Environment Ministry's survey to argue that approximately 50% of Japan's marine debris come from South Korea, it does not share the details of the survey which is vital to credibility of story.
Not only that, its sole source of information, Seaffodwatch.org to argue that South Korean fisheries and aquaculture are not well regulated by the government does not exist anymore and therefore cannot be the ground of such unfounded claim.
What's more, the article all of sudden says, "These coastal areas are facing the Sea of Japan and the local Japanese people are working had to clean-up of the drifted debris. Unfortunately though in the last few years South Korea has been spending its time trying to get the name of the sea changed to ‘East Sea’ while there are more important issues at hand with the state of the environment."
This is really an illogical and absurd statement. First, as a matter of fact, the sea between Korea and Japan is "East Sea." And even if the Japan's claim on the water is acknowledged, it should be called as East Sea/Sea of Japan in accordance with the international law and regulations.
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