The 1971 black-and-white photo captures Ryoko Kamimura cradling her severely deformed daughter Tomoko, a victim of Minamata disease, in a Japanese bath. The photograph was one of many featured in ...

It was a study by the acclaimed Magnum photographer Eugene Smith of a Japanese mother holding her crippled daughter in the bath ... aware of a disease afflicting people in the Minamata area ...

Eugene Smith’s evocative 1971 image “Tomoko and her Mother in the Bath” depicts ... where he documented what came to be known as “Minamata disease” — the result of toxic industrial ...

Eugene Smith, is held by her mother in the bath in the horizontally long ... Jodo” (This painful world and the paradise) about Minamata disease, illustrating 284 individuals with anguished ...

Niigata Gov. Hideyo Hanazumi expressed his displeasure over an incorrect description of Minamata disease mercury poisoning in ...

Minamata disease describes methylmercury poisoning, which results in irreversible damage to the nervous system. The disease first occurred when toxic pollutants affected the fish that comprised ...

After repeated government requests, a home tutoring company apologized for wrongly teaching children that Minamata disease, a neurological disorder caused by mercury poisoning, is hereditary.

The Osaka District Court recognized all 128 plaintiffs as Minamata disease victims and ordered the government, Kumamoto and Chisso Corp., which is held responsible for the pollution, to pay 2.75 ...

Eugene Smith’s evocative 1971 image “Tomoko and Her Mother in the Bath” depicts ... where he documented what came to be known as “Minamata disease” – the result of toxic industrial ...

The Osaka District Court recognized all 128 plaintiffs as Minamata disease victims and ordered the government, Kumamoto and Chisso Corp., which is held responsible for the pollution, to pay 2.75 ...