1 Type III, also called Kugelberg-Welander disease or juvenile spinal muscular atrophy, begins to affect kids as early as 18 months of age or as late as adolescence. This is the mildest form of SMA in children.  Type IV is the adult form of the disorder.
Minamata disease, sometimes referred to as Chisso-Minamata disease, is a neurological syndrome caused by severe mercury poisoning. Symptoms include ataxia, numbness in the hands and feet, general muscle weakness, narrowing of the field of vision and damage to hearing and speech.
MÅri Motonari was a prominent daimyÅ in the western ChÅ«goku region of Japan during the Sengoku period of the 16th century. The MÅri clan claimed descent from Åe no Hiromoto, an adviser to Minamoto no Yoritomo. Motonari is known as a great strategist who began as a small local warlord of Aki Province who extended his clan's power to nearly all of the ChÅ«goku region through war, marriage, adoption and assassination. Sandwiched between the powerful Amago and Åuchi clans, Motonari led the ...