#109 - Minamata Disease (Part 2)

We continue covering the environmental disaster that resulted in Minamata Disease, how those responsible knowingly continued to harm all living things around them with mercury, and the legacy that the dozens of mass poisonings by corporations left on Japan Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast. Check my album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. You can also stream the album on Spotify or YouTube Music. Enjoy! You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app. Sources: Ministry of the Environment - Minamata Disease Minamata, by W Eugene Smith and Aileen M Smith National Institute of Minamata Disease - What We Have Learned from the Experience of Minamata Disease Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo, by Nick Kapur (2018) The Lancet - Japan remembers Minamata, by J McCurry PubMed - Minamata disease: methylmercury poisoning in Japan caused by environmental pollution, by M Harada Kumamoto Prefectural Government - Minamata Disease for Beginners Wikipedia - Four Big Pollution Diseases Wikipedia - Itai-Itai Disease Wikipedia - Minamata Disease Wikipedia - Niigata Minamata Disease

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