From Minanata we learned of the need to regulate ______________.

#Minamata #MinamataDisease #Pollution #CommonsDamage

Bombs
0%
Manganese
0%
Mercury
66.7%
Corporations
33.3%
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EDITORIAL: All Minamata victims should receive relief as new ruling shows | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

The latest court ruling on a legal case concerning the government’s relief program for Minamata disease patients challenges the fundamental integrity of the relief system and unequivocally underscores its inadequacy.

The Asahi Shimbun

.> The mercury poisoning “incident” in Minamata has been grandly pronounced resolved at least four times since the pollution began in 1932 and Minamata disease was officially recognized in 1956.2 In 1959 the Chisso Corporation paid compensation to fishing cooperatives and “sympathy payments” to patients that required them to renounce all future claims against the company. It did not accept responsibility for the disease. At the same time, it also installed a “Cyclator” to purify its wastewater, without announcing that the Cyclator did not remove mercury. At a ceremony at the end of 1959, Chisso’s president publicly drank a glass of water from the Cyclator, without announcing that the wastewater from the acetaldehyde plant, which contained mercury, was not being run through the Cyclator. An eerily similar performance took place on March 24, 2011 when Tokyo’s Governor Ishihara Shintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television to “prove” that it was safe from radioactive contamination. https://apjjf.org/2012/10/11/Timothy-S.-George/3715/article.html

#PRpollutionCampaigns #MinamataDisease #MInamataAndFukushima #TimGeorge #TimothyGeorge #CommonsDamage #公害 #PollutionPRcampaigns #PollutionPR #PollutionPropaganda #PollutionSpectacles

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Fukushima in Light of Minamata

Fukushima in Light of Minamata Timothy S. George Abstract: The mercury discharged into the sea by the Chisso factory in Minamata, and the radiation released by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power p

The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
I was in #Toroku over the weekend learning with Asia Arsenic Network NGO, Miyazaki Prefecture's Forestry Dept, and Minami Kyushu University. The arsenic mine and kilnes that sickened and killed people is considered pollution (#公害 or #CommonsDamage). One speaker pointed out that when damage reaches beyond the workplace they are chalked up to #pollution, until then they are chalked up to #OccupationalHazards. He made me re-read a page of #Galeano's #ChildrenOfTheDays to remember #Ramazzini.
歴史に学ぶ)アイリーン・スミスさんが考えた水俣と福島に共通する10の手口 - 安渓遊地

> おそらく、最初に公害という言葉を作った人は、英法に言うパブリックニューサンス(#PublicNuisance)の訳語のつもりであったのであろう。……今日では、公害という言葉は、英法に言うパブリックニューサンスよりもはるかに包括的な内容のものとなっている。(庄司光・宮本憲一「恐るべき公害」岩波新書206頁)
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> 能率をあげる思想が公害の元ではなかろうか。(宇井純「公害原論」1、亜紀書房63頁)
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> 公害対策の最も根本的なものは原因の除去であって補償ではない。(#宇井純「公害原論」1、亜紀書房243頁)
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/maxikon2006/e/7da910d6e0529a63bfdbbe5ea2fef312
#資源の呪い#公害 を一緒に考えたい。 #土呂久 #水俣 #Nauru #Potosi #Potosí
#CommonsDamage patterns
公害 - マキペディア(発行人・牧野紀之)

参考01、おそらく、最初に公害という言葉を作った人は、英法に言うパブリックニューサンス(publicnuisance)の訳語のつもりであったのであろう。……今日では、公害という言葉は、英法に言うパブリックニューサンスよりもはるかに包括的な内容のものとなっている。(庄司光・宮本憲一「恐るべき公害」岩波新書206頁)02、公害問題というのは差別の1形態であります。……実際に先ず公害の被害者というものは差別されます。……差別というものは全生活的なものでありまして、……被害者は常に被害を体全体で受けている。……差別の中身はどういうものだと聞かれて出来る唯一の答えは、「お前と俺と場所を入れ替えよう」ということしか出来ない。(宇井純「公害原論」1、亜紀書房36-9頁)03、能率をあげる思想が公害の元ではなかろうか。(...公害

goo blog
> The #AsiaArsenicNetwork (#AAN 2006, 4) documented the case of #KiemonSato’s family that lived only 100m from a kiln. All seven members suffered similar symptoms, including blackened skin and bad coughs. Five members died between 1930 and 1931. Another died in 1937, and yet another in 1951, all of them still rather young.
#Toroku on #EJAtlas #CommonsDamage #BampenChaiyarak
https://ejatlas.org/conflict/toroku-miyazaki-prefecture-japan
Toroku mine, arsenic pollution, Miyazaki prefecture, Japan | EJAtlas

In the mountain hamlet of Toroku, Miyazaki prefecture, there was arsenic pollution for many decades. After years of complaints and a court case, those plaintiffs who were still alive got a small compensation agreement in 1990.

Environmental Justice Atlas
#MountainTopRemoval explained on the #ILoveMountains site. An hour-long conversation about the environment, pollution as #公害 #CommonsDamage got me to remember Appalachia. I used to see stuff from this organization a lot but it's been years. A researcher in Japan seemed to be under the impression that only #China did stuff like this in #Indonesia. It's been a while but I've read about #MultiNationalCorporations committing environmental crimes for #Bauxite profits.
http://ilovemountains.org/resources
Learn more about mountaintop removal coal mining

Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in Appalachia in the 1970s as an extension of conventional strip mining techniques. Primarily, mountaintop removal is occurring in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. Coal companies in Appalachia are increasingly using this method because it allows for almost complete recovery of coal seams while reducing the number of workers required to a fraction of what conventional methods require.

iLoveMountains.org
> House tree persimmons
in a sunset
red glow reflecting ......
in a memory so far off
in a distant dream ......
so far
in a dream distant
--- Tsurue Sato while dying of arsenic pollution
> 庭の柿の実が 夕焼けに 赤く 照り映えている......
思い出は遥かに 遠い夢の中に......
遠い
夢の中にある
「海よ母よ子どもらよ」 p. 75
#砂田明
> #歌人 の佐藤鶴江さんの歌が俳優の砂田明さんの本 「#海よ母よ子どもらよ」 にある。 #鶴江 さんは「宮崎県の山奥で砒素鉱毒で死にはった…」#土呂久 #persimmon
#Toroku #TsurueSato #CommonsDamage
> 日本は、ドイツに代わって亜砒酸の輸出国にのしあがります。亜砒酸は、砒素の化合物の中でもっとも毒性が強いといわれ、農薬や毒ガスの原料として使われた猛毒物です。宮崎県高千穂町の土呂久鉱山、木城町の松尾鉱山では、1920年ごろから「亜砒焼き窯」と呼ばれる前近代的な装置で硫砒鉄鉱を焼いて、亜砒酸の製造を始めました。鉱山周辺では、蜜蜂がいなくなる、椎茸がとれなくなる、植林の成長がにぶる、牛や馬が病死するなどの被害がでます。
https://www.asia-arsenic.jp/starting-point/toroku-matsuo
#亜ヒ焼き #鉱山労働者 #AAN #アジア砒素ネットワーク #土呂久 #公害 #CommonsDamage
土呂久・松尾について|特定非営利活動法人アジア砒素ネットワーク

亜ヒ酸を製造した窯の跡(松尾鉱山)第1次世界大戦後、日本は、ドイツに代わって亜砒酸の輸出国にのしあがります。亜砒酸は、砒素の化合物の中でもっとも毒性が強いといわれ、農薬や毒ガスの原料として使われた猛毒物です。宮崎県高千穂町の土呂久鉱山、木城