Cold comfort: Japan’s Hokkaido battles cockroach surge amid global warmingtranslating…

In all his five decades of living in Hokkaido, Makoto Watanabe cannot recall ever being confronted by a cockroach. But he admits being alarmed by reports that the despised insects are taking advantage of global warming to gain a foothold in a part of Japan where winters were…

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