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At windy Chicago O'Hare International Airport the next day with Princess Michiko, Akihito bid the city farewell, carrying a gift that he couldn't have imagined would cause a decades-long ecological crisis in his homeland.
In the intervening six decades, the bluegills became an invasive, species-destroying nightmare, crowding Japanese freshwater lakes and rivers and destroying native fish biodiversity, says Kenji Saitoh, a researcher at the country's Fisheries Resources and Education Agency.
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