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NIMD Forum 2021
Theme: Regional Revitalization in Minamata and Partnership among Citizens, Businesses and Government
Date: Saturday, November 6, 2021
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[Keynote Speech]
"Minamata: Pollution and Democracy in Postwar Japan”
Timothy S. George : Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Rhode Island
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[Report from NIMD]
"The Living Environment of Minamata Disease Patients and the Current Situation of Minamata Bay”
Report 1: Masaaki Nakamura
"The Challenge of Improving the Quality of Life of Minamata Disease Patients”
Report 2: Rie Harada "Social Environment of Fetal Minamata Disease Patients”
Report 3: Akito Matsuyama, Kumamoto Prefectural Minamata High School
"The Challenges of Restoring the Fishery in Minamata Bay"
Comment: Minoru Koga, Director of Minamata Environmental Academia / Professor Emeritus, Kumamoto Prefectural University
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[Theme Lecture]
"Revitalizing a Polluted City: The Experience of Negotiating with Corporations in Kitakyushu City”
Ryota Shinohara: Director, Kumamoto Prefectural Center of Environmental Education and Information / Professor Emeritus, Kumamoto Prefectural University
[Thematic Conversation] (Moderator: Ryota Shinohara)
"Trust Relationship with a Sense of Tension between Victims and Companies in Itai-itai Disease."
Kunihiro Takagi: Representative Director of the Liaison Council of Cadmium Affected Organizations in the Jinzu River Basin
Takao Shibue: Former Executive Officer of Mitsui Kinzoku Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. / Former Representative Director of Kamioka Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd./ Nitobe College Fellow, Hokkaido University
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[Panel Discussion]
"Toward Regional Revitalization in Minamata City" (Moderator: Rie Harada)
Keisuke Ueda : Director, Minamata Disease Municipal Museum
Aiichiro Kawamoto: Kataribe(storyteller), Minamata Disease Municipal Museum / President of Rehaship Ai Co.,Ltd.
Rie Koriyama: Director of Minamata Forum, a certified NPO
Takao Shibue: Former Executive Officer of Mitsui Kinzoku Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. / Former Representative Director of Kamioka Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. /
Nitobe College Fellow, Hokkaido University
Kunihiro Takagi: Representative Director of the Liaison Council of Cadmium Affected Organizations in the Jinzu
River Basin
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Proceedings of NIMD Forum
Contact
Secretariat for the NIMD Forum
Hitomi Sonohata (Ms.)
E-mail:kokusai@nimd.go.jp
TEL:+81-966-63-3111 Fax:+81-966-61-1145
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