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Name
  
Masazumi Harada


Role
  
Doctor


Died
  
June 11, 2012, Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan

Books
  
Minamata Disease: Chronology and Medical Report

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Masazumi Harada (原田 正純, Harada Masazumi, September 14, 1934-June 11, 2012) was a Japanese doctor and medical researcher. His most famous work covered the effects of Minamata disease, a type of severe mercury poisoning that occurred in the city of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture during the 1950s and 1960s. His publications included Minamata disease (水俣病, Minamata-byō) (1972) and Minamata Ga Utsusu Sekai (水俣が映す世界, Minamata Ga Utsusu Sekai) (1989). He died June 11, 2012 of acute myelocytic leukemia at his home in Kumamoto.

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Timeline

  • 1934 Born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
  • 1959 Graduates from Kumamoto University medical department and goes on to study psychoneurology
  • 1972 Minamata-byō is published
  • 1989 Minamata Ga Utsusu Sekai is published
  • 1994 Receives the Global 500 Prize from the United Nations Environment Program
  • 1999 Retires from Kumamoto University and joins Kumamoto Gakuen University
  • 2004 Minamata-byō is published in English as Minamata Disease
  • 2012 Dies of leukemia

    • Published works in English

  • Harada, Masazumi. (1972). Minamata Disease. Kumamoto Nichinichi Shinbun Centre & Information Center/Iwanami Shoten Publishers. ISBN 4-87755-171-9 C3036

    • References

    Masazumi Harada Wikipedia
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