By MASAMITSU OKU/ Staff Writer
September 6, 2021 at 08:00 JST
Shigeru Yokomatsu, head of the Virtual Reality Innovation Organization, visits the Minamata Disease Municipal Museum in Kumamoto Prefecture on Aug. 16 to shoot images for a virtual reality tour. (Masamitsu Oku)
MINAMATA, Kumamoto Prefecture--Forced to close or cancel on-site tours due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, exhibition facilities devoted to Minamata disease here created virtual ones so viewers can learn about one of the worst ecological disasters to have befallen Japan. [Read More]
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