We start a 2-parter on what might be the most terrifying man-made environmental disaster in Japanese history, namely the purposeful, prolonged and secret dumping of toxic waste into coastal waters by multiple Japanese chemical companies, some of which are still around and thriving.

Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

Check my album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. You can also stream the album on Spotify or YouTube Music. Enjoy!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Ministry of the Environment - Minamata Disease

• Minamata, by W Eugene Smith and Aileen M Smith

• National Institute of Minamata Disease - What We Have Learned from the Experience of Minamata Disease

• Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo, by Nick Kapur (2018)

• The Lancet - Japan remembers Minamata, by J McCurry

• PubMed - Minamata disease: methylmercury poisoning in Japan caused by environmental pollution, by M Harada

• Kumamoto Prefectural Government - Minamata Disease for Beginners

• Wikipedia - Four Big Pollution Diseases

• Wikipedia - Itai-Itai Disease

• Wikipedia - Minamata Disease

• Wikipedia - Niigata Minamata Disease

Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

Check my album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. You can also stream the album on Spotify or YouTube Music. Enjoy!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Ryukyu Shimpo - Editorial: Sixty years after Miyamori Elementary School plane crash, the dangerous conditions have not changed

• New York Times - 3 Dead Marines and a Secret of Wartime Okinawa

• Guardian - US air force Osprey crash wreckage and remains of five crew found off Japan

• Wikipedia - Protests of US military presence in Okinawa

• The Interpreter - Okinawa’s vocal anti-US military base movement

• Associated Press - Japan’s top court orders Okinawa to allow a divisive government plan to build US military runways

The continued US military presence in Okinawa has long been a complex and thorny issue, particularly for the locals who frequently suffer the consequences of their occupation in 1945 never quite ending.

We look at the moments over the past 80 years that have proven pivotal to the anti-base movement in Okinawa.

Today's guest is Hannah Lane! You can find her via her Instagram page, and she is also the co-host of our horror movie review podcast that we do together, Not Another Film podcast.

Check my album, Ruined Numbers, for sale on Bandcamp! It's an album of acoustic arrangements of Final Fantasy music. You can also stream the album on Spotify or YouTube Music. Enjoy!

You can also find me on Twitter @sequencepod, or you can listen to my other podcasts Final Fanservice and Not Another Film on any big podcast app.

Sources:

• Ryukyu Shimpo - Editorial: Sixty years after Miyamori Elementary School plane crash, the dangerous conditions have not changed

• New York Times - 3 Dead Marines and a Secret of Wartime Okinawa

• Guardian - US air force Osprey crash wreckage and remains of five crew found off Japan

• Wikipedia - Protests of US military presence in Okinawa

• The Interpreter - Okinawa’s vocal anti-US military base movement

• Associated Press - Japan’s top court orders Okinawa to allow a divisive government plan to build US military runways