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    • Stay with Us
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      Collecting, conserving, and presenting items related to Minamata is one of our utmost concerns.

      The Minamata Disease Museum counts on approximately 100 panels of photographs and explanations.

      Many of them come from the victims of Minamata disease and their supporters, whose stories and words helped to change public awareness on environment, pollution and democracy all over Japan.

       

      Click on the images for more information

      Entrance of the Museum
      A cage for cats experiment
      "Kugai jodo” by Michiko Ishimure (English translation "The Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow")
      Sludge water collected in Hyakken
      Fishing Equipement
      Museum Shop
      Museum Tour
      Figures of Fishing Boats
      Before Minamata Disease Museum
      Minamata Disease in literacture and films.
      Self-imposed Fishing Ban
      Flags of Anger
      Mercury Analyzer
      Negotiation's Cloths weared by demonstrators.
      Carbide Lamp
      A Tape Recorder and an Iron Bar
      First Trial Judgement's text
      Compensation Agreement
      Pots used for octopus catch, in Japanese called "tsubo". The fishermen lay them on the bottom of the sea for a while. Then, as an octopus slips into, the container is retrieved with its catch.

    Minamata Disease Museum / Soshisha

    34 Fukuro, Minamata city, Kumamoto pref,

    867-0035, Japan

    Contact us

    info@soshisha.org

    TEL: (+81) 0966-63-5800

    Open: 9:00 - 17:00 (public holiday and Sunday 10:00 - 16:00)
    Closed: Saturday

     

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