{"id":141535,"date":"2021-07-14T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T03:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=141535&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-07-14T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T03:01:18","slug":"minamata-city-declines-to-support-minamata-screening","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/minamata-city-declines-to-support-minamata-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Minamata City Declines to Support MINAMATA Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Johnny Depp-starring motion picture \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/motion-picture-minamata-kumamoto-with-johnny-depp-announced\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minamata<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d failed to gain official support from Minamata City for its pre-release screening. The city explained that the purpose of the film production was not clear, and potential discrimination related to disease was unknown. Meanwhile, Kumamoto Prefecture has given its nominal support for the event in August to raise awareness of the historical event.<\/span><b> Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/articles\/ASP796Q3RP79TIPE01R.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asahi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-140285\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0422_MINAMATA.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0422_MINAMATA.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0422_MINAMATA.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0422_MINAMATA.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0422_MINAMATA.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>\u00a9 Larry Horricks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English language Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu local news summaries are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/archive\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">posted here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> every day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Or sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with all the top stories in one convenient email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Johnny Depp-starring motion picture \u201cMinamata\u201d failed to gain official support from Minamata City for its pre-release screening. The city explained that the purpose of the film production was not clear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":140285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-141535","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kumamoto-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/141535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}