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Is the Suicide? Is a Murder?

  • Writer: Suri
    Suri
  • May 21, 2018
  • 2 min read

In November, 1959, a young woman who lived on the shore of Fushan County in Japan committed suicide. Her name is Hiro Nakamura. It's been a year since she died, but the police still suspect she didn't commit suicide. According to a post-mortem report at the time, the death was believed to have been poisoned, so the coffin was reopened, and medical experts were asked to examine it. When the police saw Hiro Nakamura again, they found that there were more than 70 fractures in her body! Is the suicide? Is a murder? Or ... As you can imagine, she must have been very miserable before she died.


It was also found that there were 22,400 mg of cadmium in the kidney of Nakamura. Cadmium accumulation in the kidney can cause a large loss of calcium and phosphorus, resulting in osteoporosis and bone softening. Cadmium is the killer of the girl! It made the girl's bones very fragile, and even if she had a slight cough, she would break her sternum because of the vibration. She was forced to commit suicide because she could not endure the long illness.

So how did cadmium get into the girl's body?


The girl was a workingwoman at the zinc plant. Cadmium-containing compounds in zinc ore have long been in the environment of cadmium pollution, causing the accumulation of cadmium in the girl's body, which makes it difficult for her to remain in the extreme pain of cadmium poisoning.

What's more, there are a lot of people who suffer from this disease, which is characterized by pain in the waist, hands, feet and other joints. After a few years, there will be neuralgia and bone pain in all parts of the body.


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Cadmium is a heavy metal and a harmful substance to the human body. Cadmium in the human body is mainly caused by contaminated water, food, air through the digestive tract and respiratory intake, and a large amount of savings can result in cadmium poisoning. The mining companies of Kamioka have poured waste water into the river all the time, which has polluted the water with high concentrations of cadmium containing wastewater. This cadmium - containing water irrigates farmland made the rice seedlings grow bad, and the rice produced is "cadmium rice". "Cadmium rice" and "cadmium water" brought people from both sides of the river into the haze of "bone pain".

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