Welcome Remarks
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- Yukio Takizawa
- Director-General, NIMD
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- Takao Ohnishi
- Vice Minister, Environment Agency
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- Sukio Iwatare
- Former Minister, Environment Agency
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- Section I
- Chairperson: Hiroo Kato (Former Director General, NIMD)
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- Prospects for Future Collaboration Between WHO and NIMD
- Tord Kjellstrom (Office of Global and Integrated Environmental Health,
WHO)
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- Expectations for NIMD: Outbreak of Minamata Disease and the Responses of
Company, Administration and Local Community
- Sadami Maruyama (Department of Sociology, Faculty of Letters, Kumamoto
University)
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- How to Use the Internet to Access Information on Minamata Disease
- Global Health Network - (Video)
- Ronald E. LaPorte and Akira Sekikawa (Department of Epidemiology, University
of Pittsburgh, USA)
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and Ethical Grounds
of Its International Collaboration
- Gen Ohi (Deputy Director General, NIES)
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- Recent International Collaborative Research Activities on Mercury in NIMD
- Hirokatsu Akagi (Department of International Affairs and Environmental
Sciences, NIMD)
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- Section II
- Chairpersons: Tsuguyoshi Suzuki (Former Director General, NIES)
- Makoto Futatsuka (School of Medicine, Kumamoto University)
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- Cooperative Studies on Mercury pollution Caused by Guizhou Organic Chemical
Factory in Environment by China and Japan
- Liya Qu (Guizhou Institute of Environmental Sciences, China)
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- Environmental Research Activities by Environmental Management Center (EMC)
- Bagus Bina Edvantoro (Toxic Substances Laboratory EMC, Indonesia)
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- Mercury Biogeochemistry in the Amazon: History, State of the Art and Future
Research Needs
- Luiz Drude de Lacerda (Department of Geoquimica, Universidade Federal Fluminense,
Brazil)
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- The Mercury Problem and the Solutions Found in the Brazilian Amazon
- Roberto C. Villas Boas (CETEM/ CNPq - Center for Mineral Technology, Brazil)
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- Analytical Quality Control for the Determination of Organomercury Compounds
in Environmental Samples
- Milena Horvat (Department of Environmental Sciences, Jozef Stefan Institute,
Slovenia)
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- Section III
- Chairpersons: Nobumasa Imura (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato
University)
Shoji Tsuji (Brain Research Institute, Niigata University)
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- IAEA Programs on Human Exposure to Mercury Pollution
- Robert Parr (Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies Section
International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria)
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- Perspectives on Atmospheric Mercury and Its Fate in Aquatic Ecosystems
- Robert Parr (Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies Section
International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria)
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- The Biochemistry and Genetics of Bacterial Mercury Resistance
- Hidemitsu Hou (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Setsunan University)
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- Possibility of a Measurement Method of Toxicity to the Germ - Line by Methylmercury
Exposure
- Takashi Kuwana (Department of Basic Medical Sciences, NIMD)
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- Section IV
- Chairpersons: Chiharu Tohyama (Environmental Health Sciences Division,
NIES)
Komyo Eto (Depertment of Clinical Medicine, NIMD)
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- Postnatal Effects of in Utero Exposure to Methylmercury; with Emphases
on Co-exposure to Heat or Selenium Deficiency
- Hiroshi Satoh (Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University)
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- Effects of Methylmercury on Glutathione Metabolism
- Akira Yasutake (Department of Basic Medical Sciences, NIMD)
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- Role of Glutathione and γ-Glutamyltranspeptidase in Renal Uptake of
Mercury Compounds
- Akira Naganuma (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University)
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| Closing remarks |
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Komyo Eto (NIMD) |
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