Minamata disease

0318 Symptoms of newly-examined residents in a methylmercury-polluted region nearly 50 years after the outbreak of Minamata disease

Journal of the Neurological Sciences ◽

10.1016/s0022-510x(05)80687-2 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 238 ◽

pp. S180

Keyword(s):

Minamata Disease

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The Lancet ◽

10.1016/s0140-6736(58)91511-3 ◽

1958 ◽

Vol 272 (7050) ◽

pp. 802

Author(s):

Douglas Mcalpine

Keyword(s):

Minamata Disease

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Minamata Disease

Adverse Effects of Foods ◽

10.1007/978-1-4613-3359-3_13 ◽

1982 ◽

pp. 135-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Masazumi Harada

Keyword(s):

Minamata Disease

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Mercury and Selenium Localization in the Cerebrum, Cerebellum, Liver, and Kidney of a Minamata Disease Case

ACTA HISTOCHEMICA ET CYTOCHEMICA ◽

10.1267/ahc.20-00009 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 53 (6) ◽

pp. 147-155

Author(s):

Masumi Marumoto ◽

Mineshi Sakamoto ◽

Kohji Marumoto ◽

Shozo Tsuruta ◽

Yoshihiro Komohara

Keyword(s):

Minamata Disease ◽

Disease Case ◽

Liver And Kidney

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The Role of Literary Artists in Environmental Movements: Minamata Disease and Michiko Ishimure

International Journal for Crime Justice and Social Democracy ◽

10.5204/ijcjsd.1984 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Orika Komatsubara

Keyword(s):

Social Issues ◽

Environmental Harm ◽

Case Study Methodology ◽

Minamata Disease ◽

Environmental Resistance ◽

The People ◽

Poetic Expression ◽

Study Methodology

By offering new fantasies, perspectives and representations, artists have the power to make people aware of social issues and inspire them to action. This paper describes how artists can offer a vision of environmental resistance by employing fantasy and using tools of poetic expression for communities affected by environmental destruction. This paper employs a case study methodology to examine the Minamata disease victims’ movement in Japan through the lens of environmental justice. As part of this movement, writer Michiko Ishimure created a fantasy called Mouhitotsu-no-konoyo, based in a mythical world and featuring the moral relationships that the people of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, had embraced before modernisation. I will show the importance of this fantasy for the movement, analysing it from two perspectives: those of ningenteki-dori (the human principle) and the invisible fantasy about the mythical world. Ishimure’s fantasy offers a moral message to prevent further environmental harm.

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