The Story of a Minamata Fisherman
by
Keibo Oiwa
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2001
In the early 1950s fisherfolk and other villagers around Minamata Bay on the western coast of Kyushu, Japan, began to suffer from mysterious and often fatal symptoms of what came to be known as Minamata disease. It was not until 1968 that the government acknowledged its cause—organic mercury poisoning...