Mercury Poisoning: 20th Minamata Disease Exposition in Chiba

It might not be art yet it is relevant to our health and the food chain.

No holiday cheer here. The Japan Times announces that the 20th Minamata Disease Exposition starts in Chiba (December 11).

Not a show really rather a reminder of how this mercury poisoning took place.

The Minimata Disease (a neurological syndrome caused by mercury poisoning) is so called according to Minamata Disease and the Mercury Pollution of the Globe (by Masazumi Harada, M.D., Ph.D) because it was discovered for the first time in the world at Minamata City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, in 1956...