Corporate Tradition:
> .. 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 #IshiharaShintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television..
https://apjjf.org/2012/10/11/Timothy-S.-George/3715/article.html
#TimGeorge #Minamata #FukushimaDaiIchi #KishidaFumio #SafetyPerformance
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
> .. 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 #TokyoGovernor #IshiharaShintarō drank a glass of tap water on national television to “prove” that it was safe from #RadioactiveContamination.
https://apjjf.org/2012/10/11/Timothy-S.-George/3715/article.html
#TimothyGeorge #MinamataDisease
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
#Aravinda's article about dams and illiteracy brings together #PaulFarmer on a #dam in #Haiti, and abuse of #MinamataDisease patients by #IshiharaShintaro. I read the article years ago (on Zcomm Znet) and it kept coming to mind even during those years when I couldn't find it again.
https://signalsinthefog.wordpress.com/2000/11/11/peoples-knowledge-in-the-paperless-society/
People’s Knowledge in the Paperless Society

Globalisation demands that people speak, count, remember, live and die in forms expressible in first world languages and databases. Though the furious drive towards standardization of knowledge and…

Signals in the Fog