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Minamata : pollution and the struggle for democracy in postwar Japan / Timothy S. George.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 194.Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2001Distributor: Distributed by Harvard University PressDescription: 1 online resource (xvi, 385 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1684173477
  • 9781684173471
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Minamata.DDC classification:
  • 615.9/25663/095225 23
LOC classification:
  • RA1231.M5 G46 2001
NLM classification:
  • 2001 H-844
  • QV 11 JJ3
Other classification:
  • 89.62
  • AR 22480
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Background, 1907-1955 -- 1. Town, Factory, and Empire -- 2. Minamata Before the Disease -- pt. II. The First Round of Responses -- 3. Discovering the Disease and Its Cause -- 4. The First Solution, 1959 -- pt. III. "Years of Silence"? -- 5. Maintaining the Solution -- 6. Change Undermines the Solution -- pt. IV. The Second Round of Responses, 1968-1973 -- 7. Bringing the Issue to the Nation -- 8. In and Out of Court: The Second Solution -- pt. V. Since 1973 -- 9. Minamata and the Tragedy of Japan's "Modernity" -- Conclusion: Minamata and Postwar Democracy -- Epilogue: Restless Spirits.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: Based on primary documents and interviews, this text describes three rounds of responses to a tragic case of mercury poisoning, focusing on the efforts of its victims and their supporters to secure redress.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-364) and index.

pt. I. Background, 1907-1955 -- 1. Town, Factory, and Empire -- 2. Minamata Before the Disease -- pt. II. The First Round of Responses -- 3. Discovering the Disease and Its Cause -- 4. The First Solution, 1959 -- pt. III. "Years of Silence"? -- 5. Maintaining the Solution -- 6. Change Undermines the Solution -- pt. IV. The Second Round of Responses, 1968-1973 -- 7. Bringing the Issue to the Nation -- 8. In and Out of Court: The Second Solution -- pt. V. Since 1973 -- 9. Minamata and the Tragedy of Japan's "Modernity" -- Conclusion: Minamata and Postwar Democracy -- Epilogue: Restless Spirits.

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Based on primary documents and interviews, this text describes three rounds of responses to a tragic case of mercury poisoning, focusing on the efforts of its victims and their supporters to secure redress.

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