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. 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.
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