Minamata
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A01=Timothy S. George
Author_Timothy S. George
Category=JPHV
Category=JPW
Category=MKGT
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Product details
- ISBN 9780674007857
- Weight: 585g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 2002
- Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nearly forty years after the outbreak of the “Minamata Disease,” it remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental poisoning. Based on primary documents and interviews, this book describes three rounds of responses to this incidence of mercury poisoning, focusing on the efforts of its victims and their supporters, particularly the activities of grassroots movements and popular campaigns, to secure redress.
Timothy S. George argues that Japan’s postwar democracy is ad hoc, fragile, and dependent on definition through citizen action and that the redress effort is exemplary of the great changes in the second and third postwar decades that redefined democracy in Japan.
Timothy S. George is Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island.
