Somosdisca Feb 23

Hola Titánicos, cada 23 de febrero se celebra el Día del Compromiso mundial del Control del Mercurio, con el objetivo de concienciar sobre sus consecuencias negativas.

https://somosdisca.es/dia-del-compromiso-mundial-del-control-del-mercurio-2026/

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Día del Compromiso mundial del Control del Mercurio 2026 - Somosdisc@

Cada 23 de febrero se celebra el Día del Compromiso mundial del Control del Mercurio, concienciando sobre sus consecuencias negativas.

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bsmall2Dec 3
> "I did not choose to get Minamata disease," said Shinobu Sakamoto, 69, who has a congenital form of the illness. "I want the world to understand. The suffering has not ended."
> Depp responded by saying, "I would love to help in any way."
> The two conversed for about 15 minutes via an interpreter, with Depp expressing the desire to visit Minamata in Kumamoto Prefecture after Sakamoto urged him to do so.
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/johnny-depp-meets-with-minamata-victim-after-2020-film-on-pollution-case
#ShinobuSakamoto #AileenMiokoSmith #JohnnyDepp #MInamataDisease #SakamotoShinobu
Johnny Depp meets with Minamata victim after 2020 film on pollution case

Hollywood actor Johnny Depp on Tuesday met with an emblematic victim of Minamata mercury-poisoning disease while visiting Tokyo after starring in a 2020 film about the pollution case that devastated a town in southwestern Japan. "I did not choose to get Minamata disease," said Shinobu Sakamoto, 69, who has a…

Japan Today
The Japan TimesJun 11, 2025
Activists, survivors and filmmakers gathered in Tokyo to mark 60 years since Japan’s second mercury poisoning crisis with screenings and panel talks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/06/11/film/minamata-anniversary-film-symposium/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #minamatadisease #pollution #niigataminamatadisease
Film symposium marks 60 years since Niigata Minamata disease outbreak

The disease caused by mercury poisoning was documented in such films as “Fighting Pollution” and “Minamata Mandala.”

The Japan Times
The Japan TimesJun 1, 2025
A ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the official recognition of Niigata Minamata disease, a neurological disorder caused by polluted industrial wastewater containing methylmercury. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/01/japan/niigata-minamata-disease-60-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #niigata #minamata #minamatadisease #pollution
Ceremony marks 60 years since Niigata Minamata disease recognition

At the ceremony, about 300 people observed a moment of silence for the victims.

The Japan Times
The Japan TimesMay 1, 2025
Hundreds of people prayed for the victims of Minamata disease in a ceremony, 69 years after the neurological disorder caused by polluted industrial wastewater was officially recognized. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/01/japan/victims-mourned-minamata-disease-recognition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #minamata #minamatadisease
Victims mourned 69 years after Minamata disease recognition

There were 2,284 certified patients of Minamata disease in Kumamoto Prefecture and neighboring Kagoshima Prefecture as of the end of March.

The Japan Times
The Japan TimesJul 17, 2024
Environment Minister Shintaro Ito met with Niigata Minamata disease sufferers on Wednesday, apologizing over a recent incident in which citizens' remarks were cut short during an earlier meeting he attended in relation to the disease. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/07/17/japan/society/niigata-minamata-disease-sufferers/ #japan #society #minamatadisease #niigata #kumamoto #environmentministry
Environment minister meets with people affected by Minamata disease in Niigata

The minister apologized over a recent incident in which citizens' remarks were cut short during an earlier meeting he attended in relation to the disease.

The Japan Times
The Japan TimesMar 22, 2024
A district court has acknowledged that 25 out of 144 plaintiffs, who were initially excluded from a special relief program for Minamata disease, were indeed affected by mercury-tainted industrial wastewater from a plant in Kumamoto. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/03/22/japan/crime-legal/minamata-victims-lawsuit-dismissed/ #japan #crimelegal #minamatadisease #kumamoto #japanesecourts #pollution #oceans
Japan court rejects redress claims by unrecognized Minamata victims

Across Japan, nearly 1,800 individuals have filed similar lawsuits, with 1,400 cases consolidated in the Kumamoto district court.

The Japan Times
Show threadbs2Feb 6, 2024
Like the #Chisso corporation and #MinamataDisease pattern:
> The new company that emerges from the ashes of Purdue Pharma will be allowed to continue making and selling opioid products, including OxyContin.
> But architects of this deal say future opioid profits will go to help fund drug treatment programs.
> #PurduePharma itself will re-emerge from bankruptcy as a new company operated as a form of public trust corporation.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1031053251/sackler-family-immunity-purdue-pharma-oxcyontin-opioid-epidemic
#ChissoCorporation #TheCorporation
Show threadbs2Jan 9, 2024
> Nanoplastics are also small enough to cross the placenta into the generally sheltered environment of the womb, with unknown effects on a developing fetus.
> .. nanoplastics can get inside the umbilical veins that pull blood and waste products back from an embryo, interfering with cell processes that help dispose of cellular debris. They can also cause significant damage to embryonic kidney and reproductive cells, as well as impairing the normal growth of the fetus’s heart.
#MinamataDisease ?
Show threadbs2Dec 20, 2023

> It turns ‘Never Again’ into a kind of magic spell rather than a political project.

#MinamataDisease education and remembrance ceremonies by the big bureaucracies and politicians give me the same feeling. When comparing Minamata's tragedy to a #Taiwanese corporation's mass fish-kill in #Vietnam, an impoverished area where some will have to eat and try to sell the fish... a bureaucrat will ask "Was it mercury?" as if the PR denial and State cover up and other pollutants aren't just as key...