• Minamata is a 2020 biographical drama film directed by Andrew Levitas, based on the book of the same name by Aileen Mioko Smith and W. Eugene Smith. The...
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  • Minamata disease is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning. Signs and symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general...
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    Minamata (水俣市, Minamata-shi) is a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. It is on the west coast of Kyūshū and faces Amakusa islands. Minamata was...
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    Minamata Bay is a bay in the small factory town of Minamata on the west coast of Kyūshū island, located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The bay is part...
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  • 'four' becoming the prominent way to refer to the events, Minamata disease and Niigata Minamata disease were the same pollution disease caused by the same...
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    The Minamata Convention on Mercury is an international treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases...
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    Pittsburgh, and the pollution which damaged the health of the residents of Minamata in Japan. His 1948 series, Country Doctor, photographed for Life, is now...
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  • related to Minamata disease: "Minamata Disease: The History and Measures", The Ministry of the Environment, (2002), retrieved 17 January 2007 "Minamata Disease...
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  • Niigata Minamata disease (新潟水俣病, Niigata Minamata-byō) is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Identical in symptoms to the original...
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  • National Institute for Minamata Disease (NIMD) is a medical research facility in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, that focuses on Minamata disease. It is part...
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    Chisso (category Minamata disease)
    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...
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    hearing, or trouble seeing. High-level exposure to methylmercury is known as Minamata disease. Methylmercury exposure in children may result in acrodynia (pink...
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    mercury poisoning in recent history was in the Japanese city of Minamata, in the 1950s. Minamata poisoning demonstrated that significant prenatal and postnatal...
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    Minamata Station (水俣駅, Minamata-eki) is a train station in Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. It is served by the third sector Hisatsu Orange Railway...
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  • Ontario Minamata disease is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. It occurred in the Canadian province of Ontario, in 1970, and severely...
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  • feature film Minamata, which follows photojournalist W. Eugene Smith (Johnny Depp) who travels to the Japanese coastal town of Minamata to expose corporate...
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    generations, many suffered with symptoms of mercury poisoning, including Minamata disease. An expert report in 2016 confirmed that the Wabigoon River was...
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  • The siege of Minamata Castle was a short siege of the castle of Minamata. Minamata was the entry point for the Ōtomo lands in Higo province, the castle...
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  • Tomoko and Mother in the Bath (category Minamata disease)
    startlingly intimate photograph with Smith to illustrate the terrible effects of Minamata disease (a type of mercury poisoning) on the body and mind of her daughter...
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    biomagnification. Mercury poisoning happened this way in Minamata, Japan, now called Minamata disease. Some facial creams contain dangerous levels of mercury...
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  • Minamata: The Victims and Their World (水俣 患者さんとその世界, Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai) is a Japanese documentary made in 1971 by Noriaki Tsuchimoto....
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    Shin-Minamata Station (新水俣駅, Shin-Minamata-eki) is a railway station in Minamata, Kumamoto, Japan, operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu). The...
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    Japanese cutlassfish oshizushi at a restaurant in Minamata City, Kumamoto Prefecture...
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    tragedy occurred also in Minamata, Japan, following release of methylmercury into Minamata Bay and its tributaries (see Minamata disease). In the Ontario...
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    consensus. Although India approved the ratification of the international Minamata Convention on Mercury to ban its usage, Sadhguru advocates for the use...
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    treatment regimen to be successful. Methylmercury poisoning is also known as Minamata disease. As early as 1865, two workers in the laboratory of Edward Frankland...
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    as Scorpion. In 2020, Sanada starred alongside Johnny Depp in the film Minamata.[citation needed] In 2021, Sanada was announced as producer and part of...
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    Waiting for the Barbarians (2019), based on a novel by J.M. Coetzee, and Minamata (2020), in which he portrayed photographer W. Eugene Smith and which premiered...
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    Hightopp in Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) and starred in the drama Minamata (2020). Beginning in 2011, he has produced films through his company Infinitum...
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    Onuki M. 2016, "Drawing Lessons from the Minamata Incident for the General Public: Exercise on Resilience, Minamata Unit AY2014", in M. Esteban, T. Akiyama...
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