#公害 — Public Fediverse posts

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> 昔から「記録文学」という非常にきっちりした呼び方があるわけでして、 記録文学という呼び方で捉えますなら、 九州は非常に独自な系譜を築いております。 筑豊で「廃坑譜」を綴り続けていおります上野英信、 森崎和江。 水俣で水俣病を告発し続けた石牟礼道子。 福岡で近代女性史を書き続けております河野信子。 あるいは佐賀の農民作家山下惣一。 あるいは同じく筑豊で書き続けております林えいだい。 若いところでは、 宮崎の土呂久鉱害を告発した「口伝 亜砒焼き谷」を岩波新書で出しました川原一之。 錚々たる記録文学の伝統がこの九州にあります。
#松下竜一 #記録文学 #九州記録文学 #口伝 #川原一之 #土呂久 #鉱害 #公害 #口伝亜砒焼き谷 #版画 #川原由紀子

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.

I was in #Toroku over the weekend learning with Asia Arsenic Network NGO, Miyazaki Prefecture's Forestry Dept, and Minami Kyushu University. The arsenic mine and kilnes that sickened and killed people is considered pollution (#公害 or #CommonsDamage). One speaker pointed out that when damage reaches beyond the workplace they are chalked up to #pollution, until then they are chalked up to #OccupationalHazards. He made me re-read a page of #Galeano's #ChildrenOfTheDays to remember #Ramazzini.