Minamata disease (Japanese: 水俣病, Hepburn: Minamata-byō) is a neurological disease caused by severe mercury poisoning. Signs and symptoms include ataxia...
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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 (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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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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W. Eugene Smith (section Japan and Minamata)
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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Mercury in fish (section Minamata disease)
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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Diamond is a mystery adventure video game developed and published by Julia Minamata for the PC. The game features a text parser, requiring players to solve...
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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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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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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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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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2008) was a Japanese documentary film director known for his films on Minamata disease and examinations of the effects of modernization on Asia. Tsuchimoto...
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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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include Public Enemies (2009), Into the Woods (2014), Black Mass (2015), and Minamata (2020), among others. He portrayed Gellert Grindelwald in the Wizarding...
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Minamata Station (水俣駅, Minamata-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. It is served by the third-sector...
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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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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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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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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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biologically from dimethylmercury) is the causative agent of the infamous Minamata disease. "Methylmercury" is a shorthand for the hypothetical "methylmercury...
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chant (on "Minamata") Tadao Kamei – ōtsuzumi (on "Minamata") Hayao Uzawa – kotsuzumi (on "Minamata") (Monday) Michiru Mariano – voice (on "Minamata") Hiromitsu...
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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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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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Japanese cutlassfish oshizushi at a restaurant in Minamata City, Kumamoto Prefecture...
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that went from Minamata to Kurino and the Miyajo line that went from Sendai to Ōkuchi. Cities: Izumi, Hitoyoshi (Kumamoto), Minamata (Kumamoto), Ebino...
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