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Rowing the Eternal Sea : The Story of a Minamata Fisherman (Asian Voices)
Rowing the Eternal Sea The Story of a Minamata Fisherman - Asian Voices
Author: Keibo Oiwa, Masato Ogata
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 from effluent released by Chisso Corporation...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780742500204
ISBN-10: 0742500209
Publication Date: 10/15/2001
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Rowman Littlefield Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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