Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan by Timothy S. George

Harvard East Asian Monographs

Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan

Timothy S. George

424 pages paperback

2 editions

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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...

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