Masazumi Harada
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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. Template:ISBN C3036
- Harada, Masazumi. (1995-01-01). "Minamata Disease: Methylmercury Poisoning in Japan Caused by Environmental Pollution". Critical Reviews in Toxicology. 25 (1): 1–24. doi:10.3109/10408449509089885. ISSN 1040-8444. PMID 7734058.
See also
External links
- "10 Years of Environment and Development in Asia" (an interview with Masazumi Harada) by Keiko Ito, Asahi Shimbun, 1 October 2002
- Biography by Kumamoto Gakuen University (in Japanese)
References
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