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By BOYD HARNELL
Special to The Japan Times
On May 10, in a front-page lead story headlined “Taiji locals test high for mercury,” The Japan Times reported the results of tests by the National Institute of Minamata Disease (NIMD) that found “extremely high methyl-mercury (MeHg) concentrations in [...]

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Regarding the May 10 article “Most Taiji residents rest easy, refuse to change diet”: I am dismayed that the Japanese media’s coverage of mercury levels detected in the citizens of Taiji (Wakayama Prefecture) has not included several important points about mercury testing and the effects of toxicity, particularly for women and children.
First, the effects [...]

Screening and Sypmosium of the Academy Award winning documentary “The Cove”

Date/time: June 9, 2010 at 6:20pm
Charge:¥1000
Venue: Nakano Zero, Small Hall (seating about 500). 8 mins. walk from JR Nakano station (http://www.nices.jp/access/zero.html)
Following the screening of “The Cove”, a symposium will be held to discuss the methods of the filming of the documentary,
dolphin hunts and whaling and [...]

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Results for the health effects of Mercury and Taiji-cho Residents
National Institute for Minamata Disease
(Background)
An investigation into the Methyl Mercury concentration levels in hair samples was performed at the request of Taiji-cho, Higashimuro-Gun, Wakayama.
(Subject of Investigation and Method)

Inquiry to the consumption of methyl mercury

Of the Taiji residents (population [...]

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By BOYD HARNELL
Special to The Japan Times
The following are the results of certified and documented tests of Total Mercury (T-Hg) found in random samples of dolphin meat purchased from supermarkets in Taiji and Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, in 2006-2008.

Hideki Moronuki, deputy director of the Far Seas Fishery Division of the Fisheries [...]

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Toxic Chemicals in Whale and Dolphin Meat in Japan Health Consequences for Japanese Consumers
Some 18-thousand Dall’s porpoise are killed each year off Northern Japan. Permits to kill some three thousand dolphins and small whales off the main island of Honshu are in effect. Most [...]

Eating Pilot whale meat is suspected as a prime reason why the people of the Faroe Islands have twice as much risk of getting Parkinson’s as European Danes. The Faroe Islands, an autonomous province of Denmark, are an island group consisting of eighteen islands off the [...]