I'm so excited that Chasing Mercury is being sold in Japan. (http://books.rakuten.co.jp/rk/f166bc7b03b030dc867fa0bca21b5c8d/) It is the heroic people of Minamata Japan over the past 50 years who have fought to clean up the mercury contamination and demand environmental Justice. They have shown us all how it is done. It is those of Minamata who inspired the fictional love story of Forest and Sicily, and the others who came to gather to make the world better. What inspired Chasing Mercury?The people of Minamata Japan and Grassy Narrows and (then) White Dog Nations of Canada