Masaru Emoto, for most of his life, was an ordinary middle-manager for a newspaper. Then one day he stepped out of the shadows to announce that he had discovered a new fundamental force in the universe - emotional water memory.
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Sources:
Skeptical Inquirer - https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/a-grain-of-truth-recreating-dr-emotos-rice-experiment/
Medium blog by James Donner - https://medium.com/@jamesbonner_63058/masaru-emoto-our-spiritual-enlightenment-e6999cf45fde
Guardian article on What the Bleep Do We Know? - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/may/16/g2.science
Good Therapy - positive intentions - https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/mindfulness-matters-dr-emoto-studies-reveal-power-of-positive-emotion-012914
The Wellness Enterprise - https://thewellnessenterprise.com/emoto/
The Irish Times - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/the-pseudoscience-of-creating-beautiful-or-ugly-water-1.574583
Neurologica article on Emoto - https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-pseudoscience-of-masaru-emoto/
Rational Wiki - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto
Hado World - https://hado.com/ihm/ (https://hado.com/ihm/)
Google Patents - Automated computerized magnetic resonance detector and analyzer
The website for Masaru Emoto (https://masaru-emoto.net/en/)
The website for the Emoto Peace Project (https://www.emotopeaceproject.net)
Wikipedia - Masaru Emoto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto)
The Cut - That's Not How Physical Reality Works, Gwyneth
27 Oct 2025
#109 - Minamata Disease (Part 2)
We continue covering the environmental disaster that resulted in Minamata Disease, how those responsible knowingly continued to harm all living things around them with mercury, and the legacy that the dozens of mass poisonings by corporations left on Japan
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 (https://nafpodcast.libsyn.com/).
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 (https://finalfanservice.libsyn.com/) and Not Another Film (https://nafpodcast.libsyn.com/) 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 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7734058/), 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
4 Oct 2025
#108 - Minamata Disease (Part 1)
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 (https://nafpodcast.libsyn.com/).
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 (https://finalfanservice.libsyn.com/) and Not Another Film (https://nafpodcast.libsyn.com/) 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 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7734058/), 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
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