Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan Book

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Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan
Written by author Timothy S. George
Published by Harvard University Press, May 2002
Nearly forty years after the outbreak of the "Minamata Disease," it remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental poisoning. Based on primary documents and interviews, this book describes three rounds of responses to this incidence of mercury

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Tables, Maps, and Figures
Notes on Conventions
Introduction 1
Pt. I Background, 1907-1955
1 Town, Factory, and Empire 13
2 Minamata Before the Disease 26
Pt. II The First Round of Responses
3 Discovering the Disease and Its Cause 45
4 The First Solution, 1959 71
Pt. III "Years of Silence"?
5 Maintaining the Solution 125
6 Change Undermines the Solution 154
Pt. IV The Second Round of Responses, 1968-1973
7 Bringing the Issue to the Nation 179
8 In and Out of Court: The Second Solution 222
Pt. V Since 1973
9 Minamata and the Tragedy of Japan's "Modernity" 261
Conclusion: Minamata and Postwar Democracy 280
Epilogue: Restless Spirits 287
Notes 295
Bibliography 339
Index 365

Title: Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan

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Publication Date: May 2002

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reviewed Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan on April 13, 2019

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A meticulous piece of research. The first parts of the book are a bit tiring, if it seems so, only to reflect the slow and ineffective struggle of the victims, spanning years and decades of complaints, protests, negotiations, trials, ... all the while surviving an incurable disease.

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