Masazumi Harada Explained

was a Japanese doctor and medical researcher. His most famous work covered the effects of Minamata disease, a type of severe mercury poisoning that occurred in the city of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture during the 1950s and 1960s. His publications included (1972) and (1989). He died June 11, 2012, of acute myelocytic leukemia at his home in Kumamoto.^[1]

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. 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

• Minamata disease

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)

Notes and References

1. News: Noted Minamata disease authority Masazumi Harada is dead at 77. 12 June 2012. The Japan Times. 13 June 2012.