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FEATURE: Minamata woman faces up to mom's prejudice over pollution disease


FEATURE: Minamata woman faces up to mom s prejudice over pollution disease
By Keiji Hirano,
KYODO NEWS
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4 hours ago - 14:15 | Japan, All
When Rie Koriyama read a highly acclaimed book during her college days on Minamata disease, a mercury-poisoning ailment that ravaged a small coastal city in southwest Japan, she was astounded that the mother she thought she knew so well could act with such callousness toward a sufferer.
Kugai Jodo (Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow), written by the late Michiko Ishimure, a writer and activist who did much to publicize the victims plight, quoted a member of a sufferer s family as saying that a general store operator in Minamata refused to physically handle money from the victim s mother for fear of contagion. ....

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