Japan's Ominous Dancing Cats and the Disaster That Followed
In the 1950s, the people of Minamata, Japan started seeing strange behavior from the local cats, and it wasn't long before humans were showing the same symptoms. Hosted by: Hank Green ----------...
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[♪ INTRO] If you were looking for the perfect place to live in the 1950s, you couldn’t do much better than Minamata in southern Japan. It’s surrounded by mountains, right next to the ocean, and there are hot springs just up the road. It was basically a paradise. Plus, if you were looking for work, and fishing wasn’t your thing, there was a giant chemical manufacturing plant: the Chisso Corporation. So you had employment, idyllic scenery, and endless amounts of seafood. Minamata was perfect. Except for the cats. One day, locals started noticing the cats were acting weird. And it turns out, in the least shocking plot twist ever, that the chemical manufacturing company was responsible. About 30 years earlier, the Chisso Corporation had started...
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[♪ INTRO] If you were looking for the perfect place to live in the 1950s, you couldn’t do much better than Minamata in southern Japan. It’s surrounded by mountains, right next to the ocean, and there are hot springs just up the road. It was basically a paradise. Plus, if you were looking for work, and fishing wasn’t your thing, there was a giant chemical manufacturing plant: the Chisso Corporation. So you had employment, idyllic scenery, and endless amounts of seafood. Minamata was perfect. Except for the cats. One day, locals started noticing the cats were acting weird. And it turns out, in the least shocking plot twist ever, that the chemical manufacturing company was responsible. About 30 years earlier, the Chisso Corporation had started...
