Manga artist and native son Hisashi Eguchi reckons his new gig as this city’s first tourism ambassador is to help the good ...

Environment Minister Shintaro Ito apologized directly to representatives of a group of Minamata disease patients on May 8 for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film follows the real-life story of renowned photographer W. Eugene Smith as he documents the suffering of locals to Minamata, ...

In the biographical drama “Minamata,” Johnny Depp plays W. Eugene Smith, an acclaimed and innovative photojournalist who by the early 1970s — according to the movie, anyway — had developed a ...

Update: A studio rep has confirmed that rampant online reports are inaccurate: “‘Minamata’ was not released this past weekend. MGM had postponed the release due to the pandemic and no new date has ...

Have you seen stories about 'Chucky,' 'Scream,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'The Boys,' 'Vanderpump Rules,' or any of 'The Real Housewives' franchises? That's probably a Britta DeVore-curated piece of ...

Balls symbolize the mercury that contaminated Minamata Bay, Japan from 1930 at the Minamata Disease Memorial Museum, Japan, 2010 (Photo by quirkyjazz) NEW YORK, New York, August 16, 2017 (ENS) – The ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the central government, the Kumamoto prefecture and a chemical company to recognize more than 120 plaintiffs as patients of the decades-old Minamata ...

Delegates from some 140 countries and territories Thursday signed a United Nations treaty to control mercury near the site of Japan's worst industrial poisoning, after Tokyo pledged $2 billion to help ...

Principal photography has begun on Andrew Levitas-directed feature Minamata starring Johnny Depp as celebrated U.S. photographer W. Eugene Smith. The production has released a first look at Depp. Bill ...

A nearly unrecognizable Johnny Depp plays Life photographer W. Eugene Smith in this earnest look at his mission to document a pollution-ravaged Japanese community. If it weren’t for the work he’d done ...

In the biographical drama “Minamata,” Johnny Depp plays W. Eugene Smith, an acclaimed and innovative photojournalist who by the early 1970s — according to the movie, anyway — had developed a ...