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  • Cadmium contamination in the Jinzu River in Toyama resulted in a disease called Itai-itai.

    Sea of Japan large marine ecosystem 2008

  • It's also a great spot to observe people as they check their ke itai

    City Walk: Tokyo 2008

  • Years later, with her true body hidden, Tomi lives on in a new life, existing incognito within an illegal itai.

    Spherical Tomi JackMangan 2005

  • During a ship-to-ship battle with the Hades Iv Greatship, flagship of William Sterling the Black, President of planet Cerberus, Nez gained control of an itai, a combat clone body, inside the Hades IV.

    Spherical Tomi JackMangan 2005

  • Years later, with her true body hidden, Tomi lives on in a new life, existing incognito within an illegal itai.

    Archive 2005-10-01 JackMangan 2005

  • During a ship-to-ship battle with the Hades Iv Greatship, flagship of William Sterling the Black, President of planet Cerberus, Nez gained control of an itai, a combat clone body, inside the Hades IV.

    Archive 2005-10-01 JackMangan 2005

  • I'd intended this to be a 5,000-10,000 word short story, depicting Tomi hiding out in an itai on a satellite after Nez's death and the destruction of the Hades IV, and finding herself again in the midst of the Ryogi vs.

    Back to the Spherical Tomi peddling JackMangan 2005

  • I'd intended this to be a 5,000-10,000 word short story, depicting Tomi hiding out in an itai on a satellite after Nez's death and the destruction of the Hades IV, and finding herself again in the midst of the Ryogi vs.

    Archive 2005-10-01 JackMangan 2005

  • Called "itasha," these geeked-out cars take their name from the Japanese kanji for "itai" (painful) and "sha" (car).

    Cool Hunting 2009

  • Called "itasha," these geeked-out cars take their name from the Japanese kanji for "itai" (painful) and "sha" (car).

    Cool Hunting 2009

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