Archives of Epidemiology & Public Health Research(AEPHR)

Yunshan Professor of Law, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

Publications

• Research Article   
  A Comparative Study of Minamata Disease Between inside and outside of Japan: With a Focus on Mercury Contamination in the Amazon
  Author(s): Kunihiko Yoshida*
  
  Minamata Disease in Japan was one of the most notorious public nuisance cases in the 1960s and 70s, but is still ongoing “un- finished business” in terms of victims’ protection even after several decades of struggles. The world standard of epidemiological causation has still been applied in limited cases. However, it has been pointed out in an international report that, in recent years, mercury contamination has decreased in countries in the Global North, except the Canadian Indigenous peoples’ case, at the same time that it has increased in the Global South. In the Amazon, many Indigenous peoples, most prominently, the Munduruku people in Para state and the Yanomami people in Roraima state, suffer from Brazilian Minamata Disease due to different types of mercury contamination, as a typical case of global environmental injustice issues. This paper dis.. Read More»
  

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