Masazumi Harada

Masazumi Harada
Professor Masazumi Harada

Masazumi Harada (原田 正純 Harada Masazumi?, born September 14, 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).

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  • 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

Published works in English

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

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