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Timeline Of Minamata Disease
The following is a timeline of key events related to Minamata disease: References "Minamata Disease: The History and Measures" The Ministry of the Environment, (2002), retrieved 17 January 2007"Minamata Disease Archives" by the National Institute for Minamata Disease, retrieved 29 October 2006 * Harada, Masazumi. (1972). ''Minamata Disease''. Kumamoto Nichinichi Shinbun Centre & Information Center/Iwanami Shoten Publishers. C3036 * George, S. Timothy. (2001). ''Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan''. Harvard University Press. *Ui, Jun. (1992). Industrial Pollution in Japan'. United Nations University Press. . Chapter 4, section IV * Smith, W. E. and Smith, A. M. (1975). ''Minamata''. Chatto & Windus, Ltd. (London), Further reading *Oiwa, Keibo. (2001). ''Rowing the Eternal Sea: The Story of a Minamata Fisherman''. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. *Steingraber, Sandra. (2001). ''Having Faith: An Ecologist Journey to Motherhood''. Perseu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minamata Disease
Minamata disease is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning. Signs and symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, loss of peripheral vision, and damage to hearing and speech. In extreme cases, insanity, paralysis, coma, and death follow within weeks of the onset of symptoms. A congenital form of the disease can also affect fetuses in the womb and may cause cerebral palsy. Minamata disease was first discovered in the city of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, in 1956, hence its name. It was caused by the release of methylmercury in the industrial wastewater from a chemical factory owned by the Chisso Corporation, which continued from 1932 to 1968. It has also been suggested that some of the mercury sulfate in the wastewater was also metabolized to methylmercury by bacteria in the sediment. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated and biomagnified in shellfish and fish in Minamata Bay and the Shiranui Sea, which, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minamata Bay
Minamata is a small factory town. Minamata Bay is a bay on the west coast of Kyūshū island, located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The bay is part of the larger Shiranui Sea which is sandwiched between the coast of the Kyūshū mainland and the off-lying islands of Kumamoto and Nagasaki prefectures. The coastline is rugged, with many inlets and coves which act as the spawning grounds of fish and shellfish. A great variety of creatures live in this area. Minamata disease Minamata Bay was heavily polluted in the 1950s and 1960s by wastewater, mixed with mercury dumped into Hyakken Harbour from the Chisso Corporation's factory in Minamata, particularly by methylmercury. The highly toxic compound bioaccumulated in fish and shellfish in the bay which, when eaten by the people living around the bay, gave rise to Minamata disease. More than 10,000 people were affected. A memorial service was held at the Minamata Disease Municipal Museum on 1 May 2006 to mark 50 years since the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Masazumi Harada
was a Japanese doctor and medical researcher. His most famous work covered the effects of Minamata disease, a type of severe mercury poisoning that occurred in the city of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture during the 1950s and 1960s. His publications included (1972) and (1989). He died June 11, 2012, of acute myelocytic leukemia at his home in Kumamoto. Timeline *1934 Born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan *1959 Graduates from Kumamoto University medical department and goes on to study psychoneurology *1972 ''Minamata-byō'' is published *1989 ''Minamata Ga Utsusu Sekai'' is published *1994 Receives the Global 500 Prize from the United Nations Environment Program *1999 Retires from Kumamoto University and joins Kumamoto Gakuen University *2004 ''Minamata-byō'' is published in English as ''Minamata Disease'' *2012 Dies of leukemia Published works in English *Harada, Masazumi. (1972). ''Minamata Disease''. Kumamoto Nichinichi Shinbun Centre & Information Center/Iwanami Shoten Publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Niigata Minamata Disease
is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Identical in symptoms to the original outbreak of Minamata disease in Kumamoto Prefecture, the second outbreak in Niigata Prefecture was confirmed with the same name in 1965. The disease was caused by severe mercury poisoning, the source of which was methylmercury released in the wastewater from mercury sulfate-catalysed acetaldehyde production at the Showa Electrical Company's chemical plant in Kanose village. This highly toxic compound was released untreated into the Agano River where it bioaccumulated up the food chain, contaminating fish which when eaten by local people caused symptoms including ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, narrowing of the field of vision and damage to hearing and speech. A total of 690 people from the Agano River basin have been certified as patients of Niigata Minamata disease. Since the Niigata outbreak was the second recorded in Japan and occurred in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chisso Corporation
The , since 2012 reorganized as JNC (Japan New Chisso), is a Japanese chemical company. It is an important supplier of liquid crystal used for LCDs, but is best known for its role in the 34-year-long pollution of the water supply in Minamata, Japan that led to thousands of deaths and victims of disease. Between 1932 and 1968, Chisso's chemical factory in Minamata released large quantities of industrial wastewater that was contaminated with highly toxic methylmercury. This poisonous water bioaccumulated in local sea life that was then consumed by the immediate population. As a result of this contamination, 2,265 individuals in the area were inflicted with what is now known as Minamata disease. 1,784 of those victims died as a result of the poisoning and/or the disease.Official government figure as of March 2001. Se"Minamata Disease: The History and Measures, ch2"/ref> Those who were afflicted with the disease developed skeletomuscular deformities and lost the ability to perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
