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Shisei Kuwabara: Minamata Disease, and the Poisoning of a Town

Shisei Kuwabara: Minamata Disease, and the Poisoning of a Town

For sixty years Japanese photographer Shisei Kuwabara has been documenting the city of Minamata and those who suffer from the disease that bears its name.

Modo, one of the villages with the largest number of Minamata disease patients. 1960. © Shisei Kuwabara

The town of Minamata sits along the western coast of Japan’s southern island of Kyushu. What differentiated it from the countless other fish...

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