At least Japanese Vinyl is made in Japan where workers have a choice as opposed to China...where who the fuck knows if there is any choice. Also it seems like a lot of older Japanese Men are at the helm of the Kaiju "factories" if they wanna smoke cigs and make toys thats their gig....we all pick our poisons in the "free"world In Japan you can get all the latest fancy respirators with ease too...but of course they are not comfortable and make it hard to take a refreshing drag off a smoke. As far as the environment....Id bet not 1/100000000000th of the Global air problems come from Kaiju........Id bet that all the Kaiju Ever produced has had less of an effect that a single launch of the Space Shuttle If the Kaiju factory workers ever want /need to strike/fight to get better working conditions I would buy Vintage Kaiju only until they got what they needed.