Masazumi Harada

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Masazumi Harada (原田正純, Harada Masazumi, born 1934^?) is a Japanese doctor and medical researcher. His most famous work has been into 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 include Minamata disease (水俣病, Minamata-byō^?) (1972) and Minamata Ga Utsusu Sekai (水俣が映す世界, Minamata Ga Utsusu Sekai^?) (1989).

Contents 1 Timeline 2 Published works in English 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] 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

[edit] Published works in English

• Harada, Masazumi. (1972). Minamata Disease. Kumamoto Nichinichi Shinbun Centre & Information Center/Iwanami Shoten Publishers. ISBN 4-87755-171-9 C3036

[edit] See also

• Minamata disease

[edit] 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)