“The next 72 hours are crucial,” the mayor of Atami City, Sakae Sato, gravely warned residents and emergency workers.
Today known as mercury poisoning, the illness was first called “Minamata disease” in 1957. But the story doesn’t end there. Manga author Sean Michael Wilson took...
Japanese slapstick comedian, Ken Shimura, veteran in the entertainment industry, died of an illness caused by the novel coronavirus COVID-19 on Sunday March 29, his...
