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Japan to begin Minamata disease survey as early as this year

The Environment Ministry plans to begin a health survey as early as this year of residents of coastal…
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Japan to begin Minamata disease survey as early as this year

The Environment Ministry plans to begin a health survey as early as this year of residents of coastal…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #kagoshima #KUMAMOTO #Minamata #Minamatadisease #pollution #Science #surveys
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/617298/

A final resolution remains out of reach for victims of Minamata disease despite 70 years having elapsed since official confirmation of the neurological disorder caused by methylmercury discharged by a chemical firm. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/01/japan/minamata-disease-70-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #minamatadisease #kumamoto #pollution #environmentministry

The Environment Ministry plans to begin a health survey as early as this year of residents of coastal areas hit by the outbreak of Minamata mercury poisoning disease. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/30/japan/japan-minamata-disease-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #minamata #minamatadisease #surveys

The Environment Ministry plans to begin a health survey as early as this year of residents of coastal areas hit by the outbreak of Minamata mercury poisoning disease. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/30/japan/japan-minamata-disease-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #minamata #minamatadisease #surveys

The Environment Ministry plans to begin a health survey as early as this year of residents of coastal areas hit by the outbreak of Minamata mercury poisoning disease. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/30/japan/japan-minamata-disease-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #minamata #minamatadisease #surveys

The Environment Ministry plans to begin a health survey as early as this year of residents of coastal areas hit by the outbreak of Minamata mercury poisoning disease. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/30/japan/japan-minamata-disease-survey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #minamata #minamatadisease #surveys

Hola Titánicos, cada 23 de febrero se celebra el Día del Compromiso mundial del Control del Mercurio, con el objetivo de concienciar sobre sus consecuencias negativas.

https://somosdisca.es/dia-del-compromiso-mundial-del-control-del-mercurio-2026/

#DíadelCompromisomundialdelControldelMercurio #ControldelMercurio #ConveniodeMinamata #MinamataDisease #Minamata #mercurio #salud #enfermedad #sistemanerviosocentral #SNC #saludmental #visibilizandoladiscapacidad #visibilizandolaenfermedad #cuidados #prevencion #visibilidad #Disability #disabilities #discapacidad #titan #titanicos #titanico #gentetitanica #somosdisca #somosgentetitanica

Like the #Chisso corporation and #MinamataDisease pattern:
> The new company that emerges from the ashes of Purdue Pharma will be allowed to continue making and selling opioid products, including OxyContin.
> But architects of this deal say future opioid profits will go to help fund drug treatment programs.
> #PurduePharma itself will re-emerge from bankruptcy as a new company operated as a form of public trust corporation.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1031053251/sackler-family-immunity-purdue-pharma-oxcyontin-opioid-epidemic
#ChissoCorporation #TheCorporation

From Minanata we learned of the need to regulate ______________.

#Minamata #MinamataDisease #Pollution #CommonsDamage

.> Minamata disease was above all a disease of the spirit to which Japan succumbed as growth, money, material wealth come to be valued above the natural environment or humanity. Forgetting the basic principle that the purpose of economic activity is so that human society might flourish, MITI and the Economic Planning Agency decided that, even if a few people were to fall ill or die from mercury poisoning, corporations should be protected. The authorities in Minamata and some residents seemed to think that, even if a minority of people from the town had to be sacrificed to the disease, Chisso Corporation should be protected as the major employer in the town. The actions of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, that was supposed to protect the health and wellbeing of the people, and of the Environment Ministry, whose supposed rationale was the preservation of nature, including not only humans, cats and dogs, but fish and shellfish, birds, and all creatures, was inexplicable to ordinary citizens. Why, as soon as doubts were raised about the industrial effluent, did they not take steps to stop it? Why, sorry for not having warned people at an early stage and having failed to prevent more people from being infected, did they not make sincere efforts to help people? While they resorted to the excuse that there was nothing an individual official could do about it, the disease became rampant and enormous suffering and death was caused.

** Japanese
- https://www.soshisha.org/jp/about_guide

** English
- https://www.minamatadiseasemuseum.net/

#怨 #怨民 #水俣病 #相思社 漁業 #MinamataDisease #MinamataSoshisha #MInamataDiseaseMuseum

> Dr. #HaradaMasazumi.. an expert on the Minamata disease, writes, “The #MinamataDisease is the first occurrence of widespread methylmercury.. poisoning caused by man-made environmental pollution that the world has ever experienced.”... Many of the symptoms of mercury poisoning are similar to those seen in cerebral palsy. #Methylmercury damage is irreversible. To deal with their conditions, the patients I discuss had to be creative about how they lived.
https://apjjf.org/2014/12/34/Tom-Gill/4169/article.html
#MasazumiHarada

One day it would be great to work on views (visualizations) of #BioAccumulation ( #BioMagnification ) for Minamata, and for the great desciption of Clear Lake in Rachel Carson's _Silent Spring_

The panel in this digital photo is from the MInamata Disease Municipal Musuem.

https://minamata195651.jp/list_en.html

#MinamataDisease #MunicipalMusuem #MinamataDiseaseMusuem

> It is with this holistic notion of the relationship between humans, soul, other living things as well as inanimate nature in the life-world that Ogata and sixteen other Minamata disease sufferers established the 'Association of the Original Vow' (Hongan no Kai 本願の会) in 1995.

https://apjjf.org/2012/10/42/Shoko-YONEYAMA/3845/article.html

One of these statues has Masazumi Harada's name on it. He is a key person for learning Minamata. #StoneBuddha #Jizo #Nobotoke #地蔵 #野仏 #Minamata #MinamataDisease #MasatoOgata #OgataMasato

> On the field of the reclaimed land, members of the Association have enshrined small stone statues of Buddha and other deities, including ‘Totoro,’ as a special Minamata deity for deceased children and other young lives lost.

https://apjjf.org/2012/10/42/Shoko-YONEYAMA/3845/article.html
#OgataMasato #YonezawaShoko #StoneTotoro #StoneTottoro #Minamata #MinamataDisease

I went to learn from Minamata again today and still need to digest the more important experiences. It would have been great if we had the time and energy to visit OtomeTsuka (Maid Hill) but we didn't so we took a look at this art memorial while walking to a view of the sea and back. Brass balls might serve to represent corporate attitudes toward externalities like poisoning an ecology and killing poor people.
- https://minamata195651.jp/guide_en.html
#MinamataDisease #Chisso #TheCorporation #MethylMercury

New Court Ruling for Minamata Disease Victims
- https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15015862
- https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15016119

#MinamataDisease #MinamataCourtCase #MinamataDiseaseRuling #Japan #PollutionIssues #CommonsDamage #公害

.> The mercury poisoning “incident” in Minamata has been grandly pronounced resolved at least four times since the pollution began in 1932 and Minamata disease was officially recognized in 1956.2 In 1959 the Chisso Corporation paid compensation to fishing cooperatives and “sympathy payments” to patients that required them to renounce all future claims against the company. It did not accept responsibility for the disease. At the same time, it also installed a “Cyclator” to purify its wastewater, without announcing that the Cyclator did not remove mercury. At a ceremony at the end of 1959, Chisso’s president publicly drank a glass of water from the Cyclator, without announcing that the wastewater from the acetaldehyde plant, which contained mercury, was not being run through the Cyclator. An eerily similar performance took place on March 24, 2011 when Tokyo’s Governor Ishihara Shintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television to “prove” that it was safe from radioactive contamination.

.> The mercury poisoning “incident” in Minamata has been grandly pronounced resolved at least four times since the pollution began in 1932 and Minamata disease was officially recognized in 1956.2 In 1959 the Chisso Corporation paid compensation to fishing cooperatives and “sympathy payments” to patients that required them to renounce all future claims against the company. It did not accept responsibility for the disease. At the same time, it also installed a “Cyclator” to purify its wastewater, without announcing that the Cyclator did not remove mercury. At a ceremony at the end of 1959, Chisso’s president publicly drank a glass of water from the Cyclator, without announcing that the wastewater from the acetaldehyde plant, which contained mercury, was not being run through the Cyclator. An eerily similar performance took place on March 24, 2011 when Tokyo’s Governor Ishihara Shintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television to “prove” that it was safe from radioactive contamination.

> .. at the end of 1959, #Chisso’s president publicly drank a glass of water from the Cyclator, without announcing that the wastewater from the #acetaldehyde plant, which contained mercury, was not being run through the #Cyclator. An eerily similar performance took place on March 24, 2011 when #TokyoGovernor #IshiharaShintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television to “prove” that it was safe from #RadioactiveContamination.
https://apjjf.org/2012/10/11/Timothy-S.-George/3715/article.html
#TimothyGeorge #MinamataDisease