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Major Projects Foundation conducts fieldwork on sunken vessels in Chuuk Lagoon in the Federated States of Micronesia in May. (Major Projects Foundation)

SOPHIE MAK, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Ten years ago, Paul Adams was scuba diving among World War II shipwrecks in a popular tourist spot in the Federated States of Micronesia when he found black, oily bubbles rising from the wrecks.

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